Taxi (2015)
Directed by Jafar Panahi
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
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One of the last interviews in Jafar Panahi’s 2015 feature Taxi centers on Nasrin Sotoudeh.
…having spent years under house arrest for making films like “Taxi” and “This Is Not a Film” critical of Iran’s theocratic rule…
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)…
Previously, my favorite of Panahi’s post-arrest movies was “Taxi,” in which the director played himself as a cab driver in Tehran — with his camera mounted on the dashboard.
Ali (Panahi's nephew, Madjid Panahi, "Taxi")…