880-02 No bears / Sideshow ; Janus Films ; Celluloid Dreams, the director's label ; a film by Jafar Panahi ; writer, director and producer, Jafar Panahi.
880-03 Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Vahid Mobasheri, Mina Cavani. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 2022. Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). Insert includes "No bears: the art of resistance" written by Michael Joshua Rowin. Special features: On Panahi's films (a new interview with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani about director Jafar Panahi's work); Panahi speaks from prison; trailer.
Summary:
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal involving an engaged couple. As he struggles to complete his feature, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, as well as the universal desire to reject oppression.
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