Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies

OPENING at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston on Feb. 10- Jafar Panahi’s NO BEARS, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, is being called “a masterwork” (Rolling Stone) and “the #1 film of the year” by Vulture and the Los Angeles Times.

In NO BEARS, completed shortly before his imprisonment in July 2022, Jafar Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, who has relocated to a rural border town in Iran to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress.

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