No Bears

No Bears (2022)

خرس نیست

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Date of release
2022-10-06
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (141)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Jafar Panahi

Casting

Interesting facts

No Bears is a 2022 Iranian drama film written, directed and produced by Jafar Panahi. The film was shot secretly in Iran and stars Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobasri, Bakhtiar Panjei and Mina Kavani. Production wrapped up in May 2022.

Production

No Bears is the ninth feature film directed by Jafar Panahi and the first one since 3 Faces (2018). The filmmaker had made two short films in between. In addition to writing, directing and producing No Bears, Panahi also stars in the film with Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobasri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Khosravani, and others.

Production wrapped in May 2022, and the rights were traded shortly after at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival by Paris-based Celluloid Dreams, which had undertaken the same task for the director's previous works. The film is dedicated to Celluloid Dreams founder Hengameh Panahi.

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