No Bears

FILM INFORMATION:

Starring: Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani, Narjes Delaram, Reza Heydari, Javad Siyahi

Director: Jafar Panahi

Genre: Drama

Language: Farsi with English subtitles

Country of Origin: Iran

Runtime: 107 min

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‍SYNOPSIS:

In his new virtuosic sleight-of-hand — completed shortly before his imprisonment in July 2022 — Jafar Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, who has relocated to a rural border town in Iran to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress.

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