This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming

It Was Just an Accident has taken on renewed urgency following this weekend’s strikes on Iran, which reportedly led to the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other top officials. Directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, the Cannes-winning drama follows a group of former political prisoners who grapple with the chance to confront the man they believe tortured them.

Panahi’s exploration of vengeance, accountability, and moral doubt resonates sharply amid the latest upheaval. The Prague Reporter calls the film “a suspenseful thriller, a dark political satire, and a meditation on trauma and accountability.” It Was Just an Accident is now playing with English subtitles at select screenings at Edison Filmhub, Kino Světozor, Kino Aero, and Kino Lucerna in Prague.

Screening all week with English subtitles at the Karel Vachek Gallery in Kino Atlas, Czechoslovak Architecture 58–89 revisits communist-era landmarks across the Czech Republic and Slovakia, charting the monumental buildings, and complicated legacies, that continue to shape the local urban landscape.

The Prague Reporter praised the film as “a whirlwind tour of some of the monumental buildings that still dominate locations across the Czech Republic and Slovakia,” highlighting its focus on the often-overlooked architects behind them. Czechoslovak Architecture 58–89 is also streaming with English subtitles on Netflix in Czechia.