No Bears
One of the world’s great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears—completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022—Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal. As he struggles to complete his feature, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, as well as the universal desire to reject oppression.
Janus Contemporaries releases Blu-ray and DVD editions of first-run films, fresh from theaters, in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- On Panahi’s Films, a new interview with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani about director Jafar Panahi’s work
- Panahi Speaks from Prison
- Trailer
INCLUDES
- On Panahi’s Films, a new interview with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani about director Jafar Panahi’s work
- Panahi Speaks from Prison
- Trailer
Cast
- Jafar Panahi
- Jafar Panahi
- Naser Hashemi
- Village chief
- Vahid Mobasheri
- Ghanbar
- Bakhtiar Panjei
- Bakhtiar
- Mina Kavani
- Zara
- Narges Delaram
- Ghanbar’s mother
- Reza Heydari
- Reza
- Javad Siyahi
- Jacob
- Yousef Soleymani
- Jacob’s uncle
- Amir Davari
- Solduz
- Darya Alei
- Gozal
- Rahim Abbasi
- Villager
- Sinan Yusufoglu
- Sinan
- Ehsan Ahmad Khanpour
- Kid
- Iman Bazyar
- Soldier
Credits
- Director
- Jafar Panahi
- Written by
- Jafar Panahi
- Produced by
- Jafar Panahi
- Director of photography
- Amin Jafari
- Special adviser
- Nader Saeivar
- Supervising sound editor and mixer
- Mohammad Reza Delpak
- Sound recordist
- Abdolreza Heydari
- Sound recordist
- Iman Baziyar
- Editor
- Amir Etminan
- Line producer (Iran)
- Nader Saeivar
- Set design
- Babak Jajaie Tabrizi
- Visual effects
- Hamed Mousavi
- Visual effects
- Saadat Bastan
- Line producer (Turkey)
- Sinan Yusufoglu
- Costume design and makeup (Iran)
- Leyla Siyahi
- Costume design and makeup (Turkey)
- Ulker Chetinkaya
- Costume design and makeup (Turkey)
- Sechil Kapar
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Trailer for No Bears
