Dir: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Madjid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr
103 mins
Persian and Azerbaijani with English Subtitles

Much arrested, imprisoned, and banned Iranian director Jafar Pahahi’s most daring film yet is an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat thriller that won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Mechanic Vahid believes he has re-encountered by chance the government intelligence officer who had tortured him while under arrest. As he enlists the services of acquaintances whose lives were also forever changed the thirst for revenge and the sense of danger escalate – as do questions of moral choice and guilt.

Ever since he was arrested, imprisoned, and banned from making movies by the Iranian government 15 years ago, Panahi has found ways of producing films in secret and without official permission. Showing his political risk-taking as well as his brilliant filmmaking, this cutting and darkly humorous thriller is his most explicit attack on his country’s repressive regime.

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