This Is Not A Film
Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Iran 2011 76 min PG
Even when under house arrest, Jafar Panahi continues to wield the art of filmmaking as protest in this documentary masterpiece.
Set against the backdrop of Jafar Panahi’s house arrest and professional ban from filmmaking in Iran, This Is Not a Film is a striking reflection on personal and creative imprisonment. The documentary unfolds through the everyday gestures of filming and conversation, sitting between fiction and reality. Joined by co-director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Panahi narrates the film he never got to make, as the two discuss Iranian cinema under the regime’s censorship.
In this quiet yet powerful act of defiance, Panahi utilises the confines of his apartment to show the frailty of freedom in a world where creation is a political act. Premiered at Cannes, the film was smuggled out of Iran through a flashdrive hidden in a cake.
8 Dec, Sun 8:00PM / 97 min
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This is Not A Film
این فیلم نیست
Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Iran
2011
Farsi
English
76 min
PG
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker who has won numerous accolades including the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for Taxi (2015) and Cannes’ Best Screenplay for Three Faces (2018). His films often portray Iranian society in a humanistic and neorealist style. The explicit social critique in his work has incurred the government’s ire, for which he has been imprisoned and placed under house arrest.
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb is an Iranian director and producer best known for co-directing This Is Not a Film. He has collaborated with filmmakers Kambozia Partovi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Siddiq Barmak.
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