{"id":55888,"date":"2024-05-20T18:50:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=55888"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:51:15","slug":"no-bears-dir-jafar-panahi-2022","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/no-bears-dir-jafar-panahi-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bears: dir Jafar Panahi (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself, forced to shoot his new film in a village near the Turkish border whose inhabitants are encouraged to be scared of supposed \u201cbears\u201d roaming the countryside \u2013 just as the Iranian people are supposed to be afraid of their morality police \u2026 There\u2019s a convoluted plot that mixes reality with the story being film, but ultimately <em>No Bears<\/em> taps into an Iranian movie-making strategy based on the need to evade censorship with complexity and ambiguity in tackling contemporary political issues. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>In Turkish, Persian, and Azerbaijani with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>This film screens in the sixth edition of the Manarat\u2019s CinemaMAS film festival, curated this time by filmmaker and visual artist Scandar Copti \u2013 head of the Film and New Media program at NYU Abu Dhabi from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is still teaching filmmaking at NYUAD while working on an upcoming feature film.<\/p>\n<p>Individual films on weekdays are AED 30 per head, weekends are AED 50 per day, and there\u2019s an all-inclusive ticket at AED 150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself, forced to shoot his new film in a village near the Turkish border whose inhabitants are encouraged to be scared of supposed \u201cbears\u201d roaming the countryside \u2013 just as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/no-bears-dir-jafar-panahi-2022\/\" title=\"No Bears: dir Jafar Panahi (2022)\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55889,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[52],"class_list":["post-55888","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55888"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=55888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}