This Is Not a Film

Presented by Wexner Center for the Arts

Jafar Panahi, the director of numerous extraordinary films including The White Balloon and Crimson Gold, was accused of collusion against the Iranian regime and is currently appealing a prison sentence and a ban from filmmaking. From the confines of his apartment, Panahi secretly collaborated with a documentarian friend to film a day in his own life.

The result, This Is Not a Film, is a seemingly modest home movie that gradually becomes another astonishing entry in the rich Iranian tradition of merging documentary and fiction. The filming and release of This Is Not a Film is one of cinema's most extraordinary acts of political and moral conviction; the film was sent to the Cannes Film Festival and smuggled out of Iran on a USB stick hidden inside a cake! (75 mins., video, Persian with English subtitles)

March 30, 2012 - March 31, 2012

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