FILM

3 Faces

directed and co-written by Jafar Panahi

100 minutes

Jafar Panahi has extra-ordinary nerve and courage. In 2010, in Tehran, he received a six-year sentence – enforceable at any time – for ‘propaganda against the regime’ and a ban on writing or directing for 20 years. Yet the following year he made , where he talks about and walks through a filmscript. In 2015’s we get a portrait of the city as he drives a taxi and a static dashboard camera records the passengers. In he pushes the boundaries further in a road trip and many odd but believable encounters with people in his Azeri home region.