I got out of a jam-packed P&I screening of Jafar Panahi’s No Bears literally two minutes after the Venice Film Festival announced a special jury prize for the film. It’s probably not overly cynical to attribute at least part of both my screening’s high attendance and the festival’s award to the sad news that the director is back in jail--his status as a high-profile Iranian dissident is inextricable from his work since 2011 when, under house arrest and banned from making movies, he start...
I got out of a jam-packed P&I screening of Jafar Panahi’s No Bears literally two minutes after the Venice Film Festival announced a special jury prize for the film. It’s probably not overly cynical to attribute at least part of both my screening’s high attendance and the festival’s award to the sad news that the director is back in jail--his status as a high-profile Iranian dissident is inextricable from his work since 2011 when, under house arrest and banned from making movies, he start...
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