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No Bears NO BEARS was shot entirely in secret by now imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Playing himself, the banned director genially constructs his film with oblique realism despite being thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power. There are actually several films within this narrative beyond Panahi's own story as a director who can't show up on set, including the parallel love stories in the film he's meant to be directing and the one that he becomes entangled with near the Turkish border. A NYT Critic's Pick.

The latest feature from Jafar Panahi, who is currently imprisoned in Iran, explores the subversive power and the ethical limitations of filmmaking.

While women in Iran took to the streets against stringent rules on wearing the hijab, a bunch of new Iranian films are expanding the boundaries of the cinema of resistance