Synopsis
A film full of bitterness, but it is not bitter. Critical but capable of self-critique. With No Bears, Panahi follows on from his previous works: in the role of his own film’s protagonist, he directs a new film about emigration – via long-distance, from a village near the border. And thus he could himself be justifiably suspected of seeking to emigrate. As if the complicated film shoot wasn’t enough, he also finds himself drawn into a village dispute. The story explores a director’s responsibility for manipulating reality and demarcates a negative space that cannot be depicted – a space occupied by silence, by the apparatus of the regime. No Bears was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Vít Kořínek
About the film
106 min / Color, DCP
Director Jafar Panahi
/ Screenplay Jafar Panahi
/ Dir. of Photography Amin Jafari
/ Sound Mohammadreza Delpak
/ Editor Amir Etminan
/ Art Director Babak Jajaie Tabrizi
/ Producer Jafar Panahi
/ Cast Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjei
/ Contact Pascale Ramonda
About the director
Jafar Panahi (1960, Mianeh, Iran). Selected filmography: The White Balloon (Badkonake Sefid, 1995), The Mirror (Ayneh, 1997), The Circle (Dayereh, 2000), Crimson Gold (Talaye sorkh, 2003), Offside (Afsaid, 2006), This Is Not a Film (In film nist, 2011), Closed Curtain (Pardeh, 2013), Taxi (2015), 3 faces (Se rokh, 2018), No Bears (Khers nist, 2022).
Contacts
Pascale Ramonda
91 rue de Ménilmontant, 75020, Paris
France
Phone: +33 662 013 241
E-mail: pascale@pascaleramonda.com
