A repressive Islamist regime
No Bears
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Certificate 12a, 106 minutes
Released 11 November
The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country’s repressive Islamist regime for some time and earlier this year was given six years in prison. The campaign to #freejafarpanahi is worth our support, and this release is timely considering what is happening in Iran now.
In No Bears, Jafar plays a fictionalised version of himself, a film director not allowed to leave Iran… [read the full review at Reform magazine]
Read my alternative, longer review here.
No Bears is out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, November 11th following its screening in the BFI London Film Festival 2022.
#freejafarpanahi
Trailer:
LFF 2022 Trailer: