Tag Archives: This is not a Film

Jafar Panahi’s powerful dark thriller is a message to the world from his prison cell

Joyce Glasser reviews No Bears (November 11, 2022) Cert 12, 107 mins. Jafar Panahi is too good a filmmaker to be judged with a handicap, but few other writer-directors have made an award winning caree ...

andrew 552 views 0 likes Nov 18, 2022

Hit the cinemas for Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahis’s subversive comedy-drama debut

Joyce Glasser reviews Hit the Road (July 29, 2022) Cert 12A, 94 mins. Jafar Panahi’s 2011 film This is not a Film was made while the Iranian director was appealing his, his wife’s and daughter’s sente ...

andrew 665 views 0 likes Aug 9, 2022