No Bears

2022 · directed by Jafar Panahi

Rating
81/100
Hit
yes

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.

No Bears (2022), directed by Jafar Panahi, rates 81/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Jafar Panahi
  • Naser Hashemi
  • Vahid Mobasseri
  • Bakhtiyar Panjeei
  • Mina Kavani
  • Narges Delaram
  • Abdolreza Heydari
  • Amir Davar
  • Darya Alei
  • Sinan Yusufoglu

Crew

  • Amin Jafari — Director of Photography
  • Amir Etminan — Editor
  • Jafar Panahi — Writer

More from Jafar Panahi

  1. The Mirror (1997) — 84/100 · hit
  2. It Was Just an Accident (2025) — 82/100 · hit
  3. This Is Not a Film (2011) — 80/100 · hit
  4. Taxi (2015) — 80/100 · hit
  5. Offside (2006) — 79/100
  6. The Circle (2000) — 79/100

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