Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
NO BEARS
Khers nist
Synopsis
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. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress.
Synopsis
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. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress.
Our take
Clandestinely shot in an open defiance of censorship, Jafar Pahani’s crowning masterpiece probes the power–and the limitations–of cinema in a culture ruled by fear. Railing against the forbidding rigidity of physical as well as ideological borders, No Bears is a miraculous work of political dissent.