NO BEARS

About the Film

Documentary | 107 MIN | IRAN

In his new virtuosic sleight-of-hand completed shortly before his imprisonment in July, director 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.

FESTIVALS | AWARDS 2022
Venice International Film Festival:
Winner – Special Jury Prize, Toronto International Film Festival
DIRECTOR
Jafar Panahi
WRITTEN BY
Jafar Panahi
WITH
Jafar Panahi, Naser Hasemi, Vahid Mobaser, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani
COMMUNITY PARTNER

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