This is Not a Film
This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (OFFSIDE, THE CIRCLE) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence – six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking – Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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The White Balloon
Screening on 35mm!
Jafar Panahi’s revelatory debut feature is a child’s-eye adventure in which a young girl’s quest to buy a goldfish leads her on a detour-filled journey through the streets of Tehran on the eve of the Iranian New Year celebration. Cowritten by Panahi with his mentor Abbas Kiarostami, this beguiling, prizewinning fable unfolds in documentary-like real time as it wrings unexpected comedy, suspense, and wonder from its seemingly simple premise.
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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The Circle
The intertwining paths of various women, who struggle to function in the sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Official Selection: Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, TIFF
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Taxi
Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver/director. His camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama and cinema.
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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Panel: Panahi & Kiarostami
A panel discussion about Panahi and Kiarostami’s work, moderated by Godfrey Cheshire and featuring Jamsheed Akrami, historian and writer Arash Azizi, critic Leslie Camhi and film professor Richard Peña, will take place Sunday, January 4 at 1:15pm, following the 11:30am screening of Through the Olive Trees.
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This panel is part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
Offside
Screening on 35mm!
Several young Iranian girls, barred from attending soccer matches under the laws of the Islamic Republic, attempt to sneak into Tehran’s Azadi Stadium by dressing up as boys.
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No Bears
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite his oppression at the hands of the Iranian government. Now, as the international film community vehemently denounces his summer 2022 arrest and continued imprisonment for his vocal support of a fellow artist’s independence, Panahi has gifted us all with a new virtuosic sleight-of-hand. I
n NO BEARS, as in many of his recent titles, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, in this case relocated to a rural border town to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey – the story of which comes to sharply mirror disturbing events that begin to occur around him. As he struggles to complete his film, Panahi finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, and the universal desire to reject oppression.
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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Crimson Gold
Two master filmmakers, Abba Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi team up as writer and director, respectively, on CRIMSON GOLD, a subtle tragedy on class conflict in modern Iran.
Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin, a real-life pizza delivery man who has schizophrenia) is a lumbering war veteran swollen by cortisone (for war-induced pain) and reduced to delivering pizzas at night. Through his nightly rounds, he bears witness to the rewards and vanities of the city’s wealthy. He is humiliated when a jewelry shop owner won’t allow him in his store, and under pressure to get married, Hussein awkwardly aspires to higher ground. When an eccentric socialite gives him a taste of luxury, Hussein can no longer accept his lowly status.
Kiarostami based the story on an actual newspaper account of a botched robbery attempt at a Tehranian jewelry store by a desperate pizza deliveryman.
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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Closed Curtain
They are both on the run: the man with the dog he isn’t allowed to own because Islamic law deems it to be unclean, and the young woman who took part in an illicit party on the shores of the Caspian Sea…
Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival
Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS
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Jay Kelly (Open Captioning)
Please note that there are additional showtimes of JAY KELLY that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.
JAY KELLY, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) and his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler) as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they’ve made, the relationships with their loved ones, and the legacies they’ll leave behind.
Official Selection: Venice Film Festival