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  "textContent": "After being banned from directing for 20 years, Jafar Panahi just... kept making movies, working in secret and slowly developing a clandestine style of filmmaking that built towards the politically engaged and relevant _It Was Just an Accident._ This video looks at what makes the Iranian director's work so uniquely powerful, and how he engages with political narratives without falling into the trap of propagandistic storytelling.",
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