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Three Films by Jafar Panahi

We celebrate the great Iranian director by revisiting three of his earlier films, which play profoundly with the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction: genre-busting The Mirror (1997), This is Not a Film, filmed under house arrest in 2011, and the Golden Bear-winning Taxi Tehran (2015).

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The Mirror

Showing on Sun 01 Feb

This early feature from Jafar Panahi explores the interplay of imagination and reality, creating a slyly inventive meta-film marvel. 

This is Not a Film

Showing from Sat 31 Jan

How do you make a film when your government has imposed a 20 year directing ban on you? This is Jafar Panahi's brilliant and brave answer.

Taxi Tehran

Showing on Sun 08 Feb

Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver in Tehran who, rather than demanding cash payment from customers asks only to hear something about their lives.