No Bears

Oct 6, 2022

1h 47m

★ 6.9

Overview

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

JP Production

No Bears Trailers

Cast

Jafar Panahi

The Sheriff

Naser Hashemi

Ghanbar

Vahid Mobaser

Bakhtiyar

Bakhtiyar Panjeei

Zara

Mina Kavani

Ghanbar's Mother

Narges Delaram

Reza

Abdolreza Heydari

Solduz

Amir Davar

Gozal

Darya Alei

Sinan

Sinan Yusufoglu

Villager

Rahim Abbasi

Kid

Ehsan Ahmad Khanpour

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