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This Is Not a Film is a iranien film of genre Documentary directed by Jafar Panahi released in USA on 29 february 2012 with Jafar Panahi

This Is Not a Film (2011)

این فیلم نیست, In film nist

This Is Not a Film
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Released in USA 29 february 2012
Length 1h15
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OriginIran
Rating73% 3.6953853.6953853.6953853.6953853.695385

This Is Not a Film (Persian: In film nist - این فیلم نیست‎) is an Iranian documentary film by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. It was released on 28 September 2011 in France, distributed by Kanibal Films Distribution. The film was smuggled from Iran to Cannes in a flash drive hidden inside a birthday cake. It was specially screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and later at the New York Film Festival, and others. It also took part in the International Competition of the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival.



^ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 148. ISBN 978-1908215017.

^ Ceci n'est pas un film Allocine index. Retrieved 30 September.

Synopsis

Panahi is under house arrest, awaiting the result of his appeal of a six-year prison sentence and twenty-year ban on film-making, leaving the country or giving media interviews for "propaganda against the regime". Bored and desperate that this verdict may mean his artistic death, he starts documenting his life. He begins filming himself in his apartment, then calls his friend and collaborator, Mirtahmasb, who arrives at the apartment and takes over the camera. Banned from film making and determined to save at least some of his artistic visions, Panahi reads some of the scenario from the movie he was planning to make. Upon hearing fireworks marking the ancient Iranian festival Chaharshanbe Suri that precedes the Persian new year, Nouruz, and other suspicious noises resembling gunshots, he gets scared and quickly stops this project. He turns on the TV to hear the news. We see news about the tsunami in Japan and later it is announced that Iran's president has banned any fireworks and bonfires that used to mark Chaharshanbe Suri.

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Jafar Panahi

(Self)Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

(lui-même)
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