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    ‘No Bears’ review: From Iran, a master class in house-arrest filmmaking from Jafar Panahi

    The facts are stark. In 2010, discouraged at one of its native artist’s insistence on pushing boundaries and making Iran look less than ideal on film, the Iranian government slapped writer-director Jafar Panahi with a 20-year ban on moviemaking. He was also confined to within Iran itself, with no travel beyond its borders. Last July, after the completion of his fifth clandestine feature ...
    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Jan 20, 2023 3 minutes
    Jafar Panahi in“ No Bears,” which he also directed.

    The facts are stark.

    In 2010, discouraged at one of its native artist’s insistence on pushing boundaries and making Iran look less than ideal on film, the Iranian government slapped writer-director Jafar Panahi with a 20-year ban on moviemaking. He was also confined to within Iran itself, with no travel beyond its borders.

    Last July, after the completion of his fifth clandestine feature project in 12 years, Panahi was imprisoned just before Iran’s civil

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