This Is Not a Film

A film by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi
75 min, DCP

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-
minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (OFFSIDE,
THE CIRCLE) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence – six years in
prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking – Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone,
discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

“Against all odds, an unquenchable artist has made yet another piece of powerful art.” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmZjcgH_iE