No Bears

Los Osos No Existen / Khers nist

Persian audio, Spanish subtitles · Filmoteca

Prohibited by the government from making films and from leaving Iran, owing to his politically critical movies, filmmaker Jafar Panahi, playing a fictionalized version of himself, has rented a room at the village of Jaban, near the Iran–Turkey border, where he is remotely directing a docudrama about an Iranian couple, Bakhtiar and Zara, who are attempting to secure fake passports so they can flee the country after years of government abuse.

Director

Jafar Panahi

Starring

Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobasri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani

Not in English. Persian audio, spanish subtitles.