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No Bears

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Love/Romance · Films about Films · Politics · Comedy/Satire · Human Rights/Labor/Social

CountryIran
Production Year2022
Running Time107min
FormatDCP
ColorColor

Program Note

Jafar Panahi is a renowned Iranian filmmaker who won the Cannes Golden Camera Award with The White Balloon (1995), the Venice Golden Lion with The Circle (2000), and the Berlin Silver Bear with Offside (2006). However, in 2010, he was given a six-year prison sentence and banned from making films for twenty years in his native Iran for his alleged anti-government activities. He served two months in prison and continued to make films in secret upon release. This year, he was detained for taking part in protests for his fellow filmmakers and forced to resume his six-year prison sentence. Several international film festivals petitioned for his release. Completed prior to his detention, No Bears shows how Panahi has been making films in Iran while evading government surveillance. His own filmmaking process comes together with the story of this film, which holds onto the belief in the world and people despite the difficulties. (NAM Dong-chul)

Director

Jafar PANAHI

Born in 1960, Jafar Panahi is a director and writer representing the Iranian New Wave film movement. He became internationally recognized with his debut feature film, The White Balloon (1995), which won the Caméra d′Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He continued to achieve high acclaim in the international film community with his following films, including, The Mirror (1997), which received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival; The Circle (2000), which received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; Taxi (2015), which received the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival; and 3 Faces (2018), which received the Best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival, among many others. Although he is banned from filmmaking in his own country by the government, his passion for cinema never stops. His latest film, No Bears, has been invited to the Venice International Film Festival to compete, and to the Toronto International Film Festival to screen.

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