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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 15h

Today's Venice double-feature

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 19h

Mandatory stop at The Christmas Sleigh

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For more context: boxd.it/boSHmL

A ★★★★★ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025)

The first time I'd seen one of Panahi's movies in a film festival 14 years ago, he was unavailable to present it. It was for the first film he made under house arrest and a formal ban from filmmaking ...

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Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social · 1d

Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles theatres. A film of blistering rage and implacable moral authority, in which Panahi's presence, experience and courage are stamped into every frame: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Triumph Sends a Warning to Authoritarians Everywhere

The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas of political resistance.

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 1d

You guys 😭😭😭

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 2d

Starting off my totally chill not stressful at all marathon of The Voice of Hind Rajab, It Was Just an Accident and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah gm

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani, in response, says something like [not exactly verbatim]: "It took me to get you to even see Muslims as members of the city."

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 9d

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 2d

The ears say hi 👂🏾👂🏾

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 2d

Added a haircut to the shave as if I weren't babygirl enough 👶🏾✨

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 2d

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 3d

So stoked to finally get to see this legend in the flesh tomorrow 😭😭😭

One of my all-time heroes and favorite living filmmakers

Ed Wang @edataoldotcom.bsky.social · 11d

The last thing I expected to see tonight: legendary Iranian director Jafar Panahi shooting the Beyond Fest @beyondfest.bsky.social tee-shirt cannon into the Aero Theatre audience. @amcinematheque.bsky.social

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 9d

the best part of carrie coon and tracy letts’s letterboxd account is that i don’t know which writes a review, and i hope it stays that way

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Ibad @ibad.bsky.social · 4d

Tried it from a different angle

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 4d

“I didn’t find God in the skies. I found God in images.”

Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a pioneering trans activist from the Stonewall era on and a woman who lived an extraordinary life, has died. She was one tough customer. I have always loved this quote from her and if you've ever tried to ascertain the truth about a moment in history, you may relate to it.