The story of the last 40 years of Iranian cinema, as told by the international media, is one of art versus oppression, of free expression battling the forces of censorship. His new film, Three Faces (2018) shared the award for Best Screenplay at the 71st Cannes Film Festival with Italian director Alice Rohrwacher's Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro, 2018).
No one can tell you which story to tell: ‘You must find it yourself.’ The important thing, he continues, is to be original. In Taxi, Panahi tells the aspiring director that landing on the right subject is the hardest part.
The following year, he released This Is Not a Film, the first of three lo-fi features he has made in defiance of the ban. Taxi, which won the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, makes both implied and explicit references to the circumstance of its director: following extensive clashes with Iran’s censors, Panahi was arrested in 2010 his sentence included a 20-year ban on filmmaking. He does so while sitting in the back of the cab that Panahi, playing himself, drives around Tehran throughout the film. In a scene from Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2015), a film student asks the director for advice.
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