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No Bears

No Bears

20226.81h 47m

Overview

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Directed by Jafar Panahi
Written by Jafar Panahi
Produced by Jafar Panahi
Box Office0Revenue: $1.1M

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Top Cast

Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi

Naser Hashemi

Naser Hashemi

The Sheriff

Vahid Mobasseri

Vahid Mobasseri

Ghanbar

Bakhtiyar Panjeei

Bakhtiyar Panjeei

Bakhtiyar

Mina Kavani

Mina Kavani

Zara

N

Narges Delaram

Ghanbar's Mother

A

Abdolreza Heydari

Reza

A

Amir Davar

Solduz

D

Darya Alei

Gozal

S

Sinan Yusufoglu

Sinan

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Themes & Keywords

photographyborderfilmmaking

About No Bears

No Bears is a drama, romance film released in 2022 exploring themes of photography, border, filmmaking. Directed by Jafar Panahi, it stars Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobasseri. Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

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