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Release: July 28, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Two master filmmakers, Abba Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry) and Jafar Panahi (The Circle, Taxi), team up as writer and director, respectively, on CRIMSON GOLD, a subtle tragedy on class conflict in modern Iran. Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin, a real-life pizza delivery man who has schizophrenia) is a lumbering war veteran swollen by cortisone (for war-induced pain) and reduced to delivering pizzas at night. Through his nightly rounds, he bears witness to the rewards and vanities of the city's wealthy. He is humiliated when a jewelry shop owner won't allow him in his store, and under pressure to get married, Hussein awkwardly aspires to higher ground. When an eccentric socialite gives him a taste of luxury, Hussein can no longer accept his lowly status. Kiarostami based the story on an actual newspaper account of a botched robbery attempt at a Tehranian jewelry store by a desperate pizza deliveryman. Bonus Features: 1. New video interview with writer/director/producer Jafar Panahi 2. Booklet with new writing by historian Sheida Dayani Crimson Gold [Blu-ray] Crimson Gold Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews

Release: June 30, 2026

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In this Palme d’Or winner from the Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, a chance encounter sets in motion an urgent moral thriller. When a stranded driver (Ebrahim Azizi) walks into his shop, mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has come face-to-face with Eqbal, a notoriously brutal guard who tortured him during his political imprisonment. Gathering a band of fellow former inmates and other allies, Vahid sets out to take justice into his own hands—but does he have the right man? Shot in secret after Panahi’s longtime ban from filmmaking in his home country, It Was Just an Accident is a tour de force of sustained tension and mordant humor, provocatively shifting perspectives to examine vital questions of trauma and revenge. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2025 featuring Panahi and members of the cast and crew Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by poet, scholar, and translator Sheida Dayani

Release: June 30, 2026

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In this Palme d’Or winner from the Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, a chance encounter sets in motion an urgent moral thriller. When a stranded driver (Ebrahim Azizi) walks into his shop, mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has come face-to-face with Eqbal, a notoriously brutal guard who tortured him during his political imprisonment. Gathering a band of fellow former inmates and other allies, Vahid sets out to take justice into his own hands—but does he have the right man? Shot in secret after Panahi’s longtime ban from filmmaking in his home country, It Was Just an Accident is a tour de force of sustained tension and mordant humor, provocatively shifting perspectives to examine vital questions of trauma and revenge. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2025 featuring Panahi and members of the cast and crew Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by poet, scholar, and translator Sheida Dayani

Release: October 17, 2023

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One of the world’s great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears—completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022—Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal. As he struggles to complete his feature, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, as well as the universal desire to reject oppression. SPECIAL FEATURES On Panahi’s Films, a new interview with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani about director Jafar Panahi’s work PLUS: Panahi Speaks from Prison Trailer Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews No Bears (Criterion Premieres) [Blu-ray]