Winning the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller is both a broadside and real-world triumph against authoritarian oppression.

When a traveller with a distinctively squeaky prosthetic leg arrives at his auto-repair shop one night, Vahid is convinced that it’s the officer who tortured him in prison years ago. Although he was always blindfolded when it happened, he’d recognise the sound of that leg anywhere – and so, seizing the opportunity for revenge, Vahid abducts the man and transports him to the desert, intending to bury him alive. But before he can do the deed, Vahid’s conscience halts him: what if he’s kidnapped the wrong person? Over a frenzied 24 hours, he sets out to find other former prisoners who can verify the man’s identity, amassing an unlikely group of co-conspirators along the way, each of whom carries their own motivation for vengeance.

This film contains violence and strong language.

Accompanying Short: Salt

Director: Edward Bede | Year: 2025 | Rating: Unclassified 15+ | Runtime: 8 mins | Country: Australia | Genre: Comedy | Language: English

A boy meets a rock on a salt flat.

Doors Open: 1:30 pm | Screening Starts: 2:00 pm