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We really wanted to show director Jafar Panahi’s NO BEARS back in 2023, but scheduling made it impossible. We are honoured to now present this film by a director who has long defied a filmmaking ban from Iranian authorities, creating masterpieces such as This Is Not A Film while under house arrest. In mid-2022, the filmmaker was jailed for six years on dubious propaganda charges. No Bears was completed shortly before his arrest, meaning it arrived on screens with added urgency.

Here, Panahi plays a version of himself, remotely directing a film from a village near the Iran-Turkey border. As he grapples with pressure from his Turkey-based crew to sneak across the border, Panahi becomes unwittingly embroiled in a local dispute over a supposedly incriminating photograph that he may or may not have taken. No Bears is an often light-footed and humorous film – but rest assured Panahi still pulls no punches.

Winner – Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize, 2022

Defiant, endlessly resourceful and gripping cinema. – Tara Brady, The Irish Times

In the auteur’s latest masterpiece, every moment is suffused with not just purpose, but captivating beauty. – Washington Post

[Panahi] once again reminds us that movie-making can be a profoundly humane endeavour; at once comedic, tragic and truthful. – Mark Kermode, The Observer

Panahi goes at his subjects with an irrepressible cinematic verve that extends from the story and the dialogue to the performances and the very presences of the actors. – The New Yorker

Panahi, whose courage and honesty are beyond doubt, has made a movie that calls those very qualities into question, a movie about its own ethical limits and aesthetic contradictions. – New York Times

99% Rotten Tomatoes

• NO BEARS
• Iran, 2022 | Language: Persian | 1 hr 46 mins | Cert: 12A
• Director: Jafar Panahi
• Cast: Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Reza Heydari, Mina Kavani
• Foreign language films are subtitled.
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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