Our review of the film No Bear, by Jafar Panahi: filmmaker imprisoned but not gagged

Jafar Panahi was unable to come and receive the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival last September for

.

A reward awarded a few days before the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old young woman arrested by the morality police in Tehran for a lock of hair that was too showy.

The starting point of an unprecedented uprising in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. More than two months later, the mobilization does not weaken, despite the repression of the regime - 250 dead.

"Propaganda against the regime"

Jafar Panahi, Golden Bear in Berlin in 2015 with

, watches this revolution through bars.

The Iranian filmmaker has been in prison since July 11.

It was while demonstrating against the incarceration of his friend Mohammad Rasoulof (golden bear in Berlin with

) and documentary filmmaker Mostafa Aleahmad that he was arrested.

In 2010, he was sentenced to six years in prison for “propaganda against the regime”.

Sentence hangs over his head like...

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