No Bears

Jafar Panahi

Filmfestival

Thu 20 Apr 23 - Tue 25 Apr 23

Only events in our venues
20 Apr

20:00 - 21:46

Zaventem

CC De Factorij

Past event
21 Apr

20:00 - 21:46

Zaventem

CC De Factorij

Past event
22 Apr

20:00 - 21:46

Lier

CC Vredeberg

Past event
23 Apr

11:00 - 12:46

Turnhout

UGC

Past event
23 Apr

19:30 - 21:16

Brugge

Cinema Lumière

Past event
23 Apr

20:00 - 21:46

Deinze

Leietheater

Past event
25 Apr

14:00 - 15:46

Turnhout

UGC

Past event

The Irani director Jafar Panahi was forbidden to make films for twenty years. After a prison sentence and a hunger strike, he managed to direct ‘No Bears’. A unique achievement!

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A busy street in Turkey full of noisy street vendors. Zara leaves a café to meet Bakhtiyar, who has arranged a fake French passport for her. Then something surprising happens: somebody yells ‘cut’. The camera man talks to director Pahani, who watches from a distant location. He himself is being caught up in an extramarital love affair.

The brilliant ‘No Bears’ is a layered drama that alters between funny, angry, playful and desperate. The film appeals to both the intellect and the emotions. Themes as fear by oppression, the power of stories and the contrast between modernity and tradition bring about a strong story line. In addition, personal and intimate stories are deployed for a broader, political resonance.

direction: Jafar Panahi
cast: Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani, Naser Hashemi
duration: 106 min
year: 2022
country: Iran
language: Persian
Subtitles: Dutch, French

No Bears has many shades and moods, from delightful rural comedy to the most serious kind of social concern. And it has the kind of open ending, somehow very stirring, that qualifies as another hallmark of classical Iranian cinema.

Robert Horton, The Scarewrow