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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Jamsheed Akrami

The Country as Prison

By Jamsheed Akrami
October 17, 2022
Through the looking glass: Jafar Panahi’s No Bears offers a timely story about the real and imagined borders—national, social, religious—that constrict the freedoms of Iranians