Every film Jafar Panahi makes is an act of resistance. Currently in jail, the Iranian director has spent the past 12 years in and out of house arrest, banned from traveling or making films outside Iran and faced with numerous obstacles making films at home.
That hasn’t stopped him.In No Bears, he goes to a village close to the porous border with Azerbaijan to tell a story involving a couple who are trying to get out to Paris with stolen passports, a film crew following them, a second young couple trying to escape a forced marriage and a village full of gossips and muckrakers.
These villagers miss nothing, including the fact that Panahi, the visitor from Tehran, spends all day on his computer and only leaves his rented room after dark.Merchant Of Venice Video Series Part IV – How Alberto Barbera Returned As Venice Leader And Transformed Fest Into A Star Magnet; Backing Jafar Panahi In His Crisis MomentPanahi is, of course, directing the aforementioned film crew via Zoom, at least when he can get a signal.
He has to be careful. As the title tells us, there are no bears in the Azeri mountains; there is a rumor of them, but that is fostered by officialdom to discourage border crossings.
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