Sudbury Indie Cinema: No Bears is a movie within a movie, within Iran
Jafar Panahi, who was jailed after making this film, plays a version of himself in his latest meta-fiction, which is now playing in Sudbury/
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Jafar Panahi, who was jailed after making this film, plays a version of himself in his latest meta-fiction, which is now playing in Sudbury/
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an irony that would have been out of place in all of his work until the stark horror of No Bears.