Jafar Panahi

Naser Hashemi

Vahid Mobaser

Bakhtiyar Panjeei

Mina Kavani

Narges Delaram

Abdolreza Heydari

Amir Davar

Darya Alei

Sinan Yusufoglu

Rahim Abbasi

Ehsan Ahmad Khanpour

Iman Bazyar

Iman Baziyar

Alireza Nekoolal Tak

Mohammad Reza Delpak

Salar Salimi

Shahin Khakpour

Amir Etminan

Leyla Siyahi

Babak Jajaie Tabrizi

Amin Jafari

Nader Saeivar

Aliye Tuzun

Amir Mohabbati

Göksel Tuzun

Hamed Mousavi

Ali Jafari

Sarhat Akram Ashchi

Saadad Bastam

Sajad Barati

Drama

خرس نیست

JP Production

Iran

Azərbaycan

فارسی

Português

Türkçe

No Bears

CinemaSerf

Film director Jafar Panahi is prohibited from leaving Iran, but is trying to make a film in neighbouring Turkey. In order to make that work, he moves to a remote village near the border, where the communications are a bit hit and miss. With the help of his obliging host "Ghanbar" (Vahid Mobaseri), though, he tries to make the best of it. Initially, it's a friendly village but when he takes (or doesn't!) a photograph of a young couple, he finds himself drawn into an increasingly acrid stand-off between two young men, and their families, to whom a girl may have been betrothed when her umbilical cord was cut. His frustrations with these encroachments are not helped by production difficulties with the two two stars of his documentary-style film - real life lovers who are trying to find a way to escape, safely, to Paris. There is the slightest hint of menace here as the plot develops and although we see little actual evidence, there is a distinct sense that this man is increasingly unwelcome, despite the platitudes from the villagers, encouraging a sixth-sense feeling that the authorities are distantly watching this film-maker. There is a distinct perception of intimidation! What is also clear is that these ordinary Iranian people live in fear of the police, the Revolutionary guard and that rather flies in the face of their genuine, peaceable and hospitable, nature. Now, perhaps Panahi's less-is-more style works for some, but for me I found this all rather a slow watch. He shuffles around with little useful dialogue to develop his on-screen persona, nor my interest in him. Clearly this is a story about freedom and a sort of subliminal oppression but somehow the characters themselves here didn't really develop that theme sufficiently, nor did they really engage me. The ending, too, is disappointing and inconclusive in equal measure and I was rather underwhelmed. The film does offer us an interesting depiction of rural life that probably hasn't changed in millennia, but somehow I felt little better than a fly on the wall with nowhere near enough to go on to join in. Perhaps just too much of this is predicated on a knowledge by the audience of this director and of his relationship with his government.

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