No Bears (2022)
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
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Similar to the great “No Bears” Panahi’s latest is a troubling, edge-of-the-seat romp that is both harsh and generous to every frisky, complicated character inhabiting this lightly-fictional world.
Leading actor Vahid Mobasseri is no stranger to the intrepid endeavors of Panahi, having made his big screen debut a few years ago in his previous effort No Bears.
Each film Panâhi clandestinely produced in the last decade, from Taxi (2015) to No Bears (2022), forms a series of stark reflections—dispatches from a filmmaker caught between devotion to his homeland and dread of its regime.
Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, 2003; Taxi, 2015; No Bears, 2022)…
Jafar Panahi’s docu-fiction hybrid films, from This Is Not a Film to No Bears, were precipitated by his various arrests and imprisonments…
Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi ("The Circle," "No Bears")…