Few filmmakers have given as much to make the films they want as Jafar Panahi. The writer and director has gone to jail twice for his films, he’s tried smuggling his movies out of his home in Iran, he’s gone on a hunger strike, and he sold his home to make bail. In 2010, after being arrested, he was banned from making films for 20 years, yet even that didn’t stop him. Panahi has continued seemingly undeterred, continuously making bigger and better works, with films like No Bears, Taxi, and This Is Not a Film that have made him possibly the most important figure in modern Iranian cinema.
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