Screening times:
Friday, March 3, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Friday, March 3, 9:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Jafar Panahi | Iran | 2022 | 107m | Farsi with English subtitles
with Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobsari, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari
No Bears portrays two parallel love stories. In both, the lovers are troubled by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
A culmination and refinement of Panahi's recent work made illegally since he was banned from making films in 2010 and cannot leave Iran, Panahi plays himself as a director banned from filmmaking who visits a village close to the Turkish border. There he directs a film via Zoom and compulsively photographs the villagers, which becomes a problem for them. As with his previous clandestine films, Panahi has turned the necessity of filming himself into an exploration of the artist's role in society and the compromises required to create the work for good or ill.
"It's a brilliant movie — an intricate and layered drama that somehow manages to be funny, angry, playful and despairing by turns." -Justin Chang, NPR
"Like Panahi’s recent films This Is Not a Film and Taxi Tehran, this is powerful because of its control, subtlety and diplomatic finesse." -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"No Bears is a picture that’s in keeping with his recent work—circumstances deemed that it just had to be—but one that breaks away from it in ways that yield a work of, yes, astonishment." -Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
Special Jury Prize - Venice Film Festival
Tickets $8.75 ($8 at the door if available).
Half capacity
Half capacity
