| Details | Tickets: ffi2023.eventive.org/films
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWx8teulomE
We dedicate this weekend’s screenings to Jafar Panahi, who was jailed in July and sentenced to six years in prison. Though banned by the Iranian government from making films or leaving the country since 2010, Panahi has defiantly continued to shoot films in secret and smuggle them out into the world. In No Bears, he plays himself, directing a film by videoconference in Turkey from a remote Iranian village just across the border. The parallel narratives of the film Panahi is making—on the one hand, a story about two refugees trying to enter Europe, and on the other, the drama in the village around two romantic rivals who seek advice from Panahi, echo and intertwine in fascinating and sometimes humorous ways. “Panahi keeps pulling the narrative rug out from under the viewer as he confronts tradition and progress, city and country, spiritual belief and photographic evidence, and the human desire to escape from oppression.” (New York Film Festival) (Dir.: Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2022, 106 min., DCP, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish with English subtitles)
Image courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films |
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