“A brilliant movie — an intricate and layered drama that somehow manages to be funny, angry, playful, and despairing by turns” —NPR “NO BEARS shows the influence of Panahi’s mentor Abbas Kiarostami … another penetrating, highly accomplished work by a master filmmaker.” —RogerEbert.com “Defiant, endlessly resourceful, and gripping cinema.” —The Irish Times Jafar Panahi, playing himself as a film director under house arrest in Iran, is trying to make a film remotely via livestream with frustrating results. When he attempts to cross the border to direct his subjects directly, he finds himself in a village quarrel. A meta-narrative about Panahi’s own struggles that somehow also succeeds as an absurdist comedy.
