No Bears
Buy ticketsMaster Jafar Panahi continues to explore the possibilities of the film medium under oppression and captivity in a complex meta-film that was awarded the Jury Prize at Venice.
This summer, Jafar Panahi was arrested again by the Iranian authorities, more than a decade after he was first arrested for “propaganda against the Iranian state” and sentenced to six years in prison. But all the while he has continued to find ways to make films. In No Bears he plays himself, a filmmaker who moves to a small village near the border in Iran, while remotely and with poor coverage trying to direct a film shoot in Turkey. At the same time, he is drawn into the intrigues happening in the small village, which seem to mirror the story in his film. No Bears is an Intelligent, playful and deeply serious film about filmmaking, village life, and images as evidence.
- Jonas Holmberg