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No Bears (12a)

Dir: Jafar Panahi | Iran | 2022 | 107 mins | Subtitled
Cast | Naser Hashemi, Reza Heydari, Mina Kavani

Please note the screening on 8 December will be captioned.

Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi (Taxi, 3 Faces, The White Balloon) once again defies his country’s forces of oppression, playing a filmmaker whose latest production mirrors his own reality, in the rich, complex No Bears.

Panahi plays himself, a filmmaker trying to direct a cast and crew in Turkey who finds himself forced to remain in an Iranian village close to the border. As his actors perform their own story of attempted escape to Europe, Panahi finds himself coming up against suspicion and local traditions. 

For the last decade, Panahi’s increasing defiance against the Iranian government’s ban on his filmmaking (he notably smuggled a USB stick containing his 2015 release This is Not A Film in a cake sent from Iran to Paris) has evinced a refusal to stay silent and a resolution that his creative output cannot be quashed. Even now, as he faces six years behind bars, his latest work shows how artistry and protest can co-exist, mining his situation for inspiration. A witty but serious self-portrait, No Bears is both a slippery piece of docu-realism and a resounding act of artistic and political expression.

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