“A brilliant movie — an intricate and layered drama that somehow manages to be funny, angry, playful, and despairing by turns”
—NPR

“NO BEARS shows the influence of Panahi’s mentor Abbas Kiarostami … another penetrating, highly accomplished work by a master filmmaker.”
—RogerEbert.com

“Defiant, endlessly resourceful, and gripping cinema.”
—The Irish Times

Jafar Panahi, playing himself as a film director under house arrest in Iran, is trying to make a film remotely via livestream with frustrating results. When he attempts to cross the border to direct his subjects directly, he finds himself in a village quarrel. A meta-narrative about Panahi’s own struggles that somehow also succeeds as an absurdist comedy.