This Is Not a Film

Directors’ statement: “Our problems are all our assets.” Understanding this promising paradox helped us not to lose hope, and to be able to go on, since we believe that wherever in the world we may live, we are going to face problems, big or small. But it is our duty not to be defeated and to think up solutions. The reality of being alive and the dream of keeping cinema alive motivated us to suffer the current limitations in Iranian cinema. The existing possibilities in cinema have convinced us that a filmmaker has only himself to blame if he is unable to make films. The unpleasant reality governing Iranian cinema and filmmakers today drove us to not overlook this – perhaps transient – reality and to depict parts of it that were reflected in us. [Jafar Panahi is sentenced by the Iranian government to a 20-year ban on making films, travelling abroad and speaking to the press.]
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Cinematography: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Editing: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Production: Wide Management, France
Format: HDCAM Color
Production Country: Iran
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 75
Contact: Wide Management, France Anais Clanet T. +33 1 5395 0464 F. +33 1 5395 0465 ac@widemanagement.com www.widemanagement.com

First Prize, Muhr Asia Africa Documentaries - Dubai IFF 2011

Jafar Panahi

Filmography

Selected Filmography
1995 Badkonake sefid/The White Balloon (fiction)
1997 Ayneh/The Mirror (fiction)
2000 Dayereh/The Circle (fiction)
2006 Offside (fiction)

Filmography Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
2011 In film nist/This Is Not a Film

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Filmography

Selected Filmography
2001 Qalamkar/Stamp (short)
2004 Seday-e dovom/Back Vocal (short)
2004 Saz-e Mokhalef/Off Beat (short)
2007 Foot on the Ball (short)
2009 Lady of the Roses (short)

Filmography Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
2011 In film nist/This Is Not a Film