

No Bears
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
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6.9/10
141 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Language
- Azerbaijani
- photography
- border
- filmmaking
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival4 Oct 2022
- Theatrical (limited)New York City23 Dec 2022
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A11 Nov 2022
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne Internaitonal Film Festival3 Aug 2023
- PremiereSydney Film Festival15 Jun 2025
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival14 Sept 2022
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)126 Oct 2022
BrazilBR
- Premiere12Festival Filmelier 14 Apr 2023
- Theatrical1211 May 2023
CzechiaCZ
- Premiere15+Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1 Jul 2023
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-710 Mar 2023
FranceFR
- Theatrical23 Nov 2022
- Digital / OTTTPVOD29 Mar 2023
- PhysicalDVD29 Mar 2023
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTTMUBI27 Feb 2026
GreeceGR
- Theatrical9 Mar 2023
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIIA13 Apr 2023
Frequently asked questions
No Bears was released on 6 October 2022.
Audience reviews
2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/17/2022
Film director Jafar Panahi is prohibited from leaving Iran, but is trying to make a film in neighbouring Turkey. In order to make that work, he moves to a remote village near the border, where the communications are a bit hit and miss. With the help of his obliging host "Ghanbar" (Vahid Mobaseri), though, he tries to make the best of it. Initially, it's a friendly village but when he takes (or doesn't!) a photograph …
- B9/10
badelf
7/17/2026
Summary: 9/10: Panahi's defiant meta-documentary exposes the mechanics of authoritarian control through the lens of village superstition, proving that Iran's attempt to silence one of its greatest filmmakers has only made his voice more essential. It's a small miracle that this film exists at all. In 2010, Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison; and a 20-year ban on filmmaking, writing screenplays, an…
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