Jafar Panahi's latest feature, completed shortly before he was imprisoned by the Iranian government, is both a searing work of social criticism and a barbed rumination on the movie medium itself.
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No Bears is the latest film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Filmed in secret in Iran, it opens to highly acclaimed reviews while Panahi is in jail in Iran.
After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years. Nonetheless, he s since made five widely acclaimed features
After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years. Since then, he’s made five widely acclaimed features. His latest, “No Bears,” opens soon in U.S. theaters while Panahi is in prison. In July, Panahi went to the Tehran prosecutor’s office to inquire…