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THIS IS NOT A FILM

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Both Panahi and co-director Mirtahmasb are currently banned from filmmaking and from leaving the country. Both men are accused of fomenting anti-government propaganda through their movies. Panahi’s appeal was denied in October. According to the Islamic Republic's laws, he could be arrested and sent back to jail at any time.

DIRECTED BY JAFAR PANAHI & MOJTABA MIRTAHMASB

“The only movie to rival the power of MELANCHOLIA was the smallest: Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s THIS IS NOT A FILM, shot on a cell phone and a modest DV camera and smuggled from Tehran to Paris... hidden in a cake... In March 2011... Panahi, under house arrest in his Tehran apartment while his sentence — six years in prison and a 20-year ban on making films — was being appealed, is irresistibly drawn to setting up his home video camera. For him, moviemaking is almost as essential as breathing, and so he decides to investigate the ontology of cinema in order to make a film that is not one... The result is a great (i.e. reflexive) movie portrait of an artist, creatively and without any self-pity, looking for a way to preserve his freedom simply to represent the world as he sees it... (The film) is rich with incident: forbidden fireworks explode outside; the family’s giant pet iguana crawls compulsively across the floor and up and down the bookcases, much as Panahi must envision himself soon to be pacing in a prison cell. For a man condemned, even putting jam on his breakfast toast with the sunlight streaming onto the kitchen table is a remarkable moment.” – Amy Taubin, Film Comment, reporting on the 2011 Cannes Festival.

IRAN • 2011 • 74 MINS • IN PERSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • PALISADES TARTAN FILMS

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