Film Details

The second feature film shot secretly by Iranian film master Jafar Panahi since the Iranian government banned him from making movies for 20 years is more complex and subversive than the first (2011's This Is Not a Film). Set and shot inside his beachfront villa on the Caspian Sea, Panahi's new movie follows a paranoid screenwriter (co-director Partovi) whose cloistered life with his illicit dog is disturbed by various interlopers. A mischievous, Pirandellian entertainment. “Critics’ Pick…An allegory, dark but not despairing, of the creative spirit under political pressure, and of the ways the imagination can be both a refuge and a place of confinement.” –The NY Times. “Five stars (highest rating)...Masterful.” –Time Out New York.