No Bears (2022)
With the brilliant and devastating No Bears, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year. It is also one of my favourite films of the year.
The socially conscious filmmaker is now serving a six-year prison sentence inhis homeland on some trumped up charge. It only makes his work more relevant.
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