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This Is Not A Film

May 2018

  • This Is not A Film, film still - Jafar Panahi

    Cannes 2018: The directors who are banned from attending the film festival

    Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi and Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov – who both have films competing for the Palme d’Or – have been prevented from leaving their respective countries

July 2016

  • the 2015 film Tangerine, with Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, James Ransome and Mya Taylor, was shot on three iPhones.

    Film blog
    Celluloid is strictly for nostalgists. Digital technology saved a dying medium

    Those who mourn the passing of 35mm forget what a closed club film-making was, and overlook how vital and creative digital cinema has become

November 2015

  • taxi tehran

    Taxi Tehran review – Jafar Panahi’s joy ride

    Again thumbing his nose at the regime that has banned him, the courageous Iranian director makes his latest film in a car

January 2015

  • Blue is the Warmest Colour

    Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade

    We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade

February 2013

  • this is not a film

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

    Jafar Panahi has been banned from making movies by the Iranian government. Which just makes his latest film all the more astonishing, writes Mark Kermode

December 2012

  • Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi in his documentary This Is Not a Film (2011)

    10 best films of 2012
    The 10 best films of 2012, No 6 – This Is Not a Film

  • Arrested development … Jafar Panahi in This Is Not a Film

    Bully and Jafar Panahi make Oscar best documentary shortlist

March 2012

  • Reel review
    This Is Not a Film: 'A salute to a creative spirit that will not be crushed' - video review

  • Xan Brooks and Jason Solomons

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly podcast: This Is Not a Film

  • This Is Not a Film

    This Is Not a Film review – agonising non-film heaps shame on Iranian government

  • Jafar Panahi in his Tehran apartment with pet iguana Igi.

    This is Not a Film – review

  • Jafar Panahi was banned from directing or editing … and still got a movie out

  • The Guardian profile
    Jafar Panahi: arrested, banned and defying Iran with his new film

May 2011

  • Jafar Panahi

    Jafar Panahi not in Cannes for This Is Not a Film premiere

    Banned Iranian director who received prison sentence for criticising regime stars in movie smuggled out of Iran

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