directed by: Jafar Panahi, year: 2022
actors: Jafar Panahi

No Bears follows a filmmaker who travels between a remote border village and the outside world as he attempts to shoot a film while wrangling fear, censorship, and the unpredictable reactions of those he meets. The narrative threads reality and fiction, turning the director’s presence into a test of truth, privacy, and responsibility as villagers, reporters, and officials respond to his cameras. It is a provocative, boundary-crossing meditation on cinema, power, and memory.

Middle East, Drama, Political Drama, Metafiction, Iranian Cinema