‘No Bears’: Iranian director’s poignant film champions freedom to create
by Peter Rainer
Jan 12, 2023
2 minutes
It’s a truism that those who are imprisoned are among the most likely to cherish freedom. I thought of this as I watched Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears,” which was filmed several months before he was sentenced in July 2022 to six years in prison for “propaganda against the Islamic republic.” He joins the fate of so many of his country’s artists and freethinkers.
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