Director Jafar Panahi navigates the lively, colorful streets of Tehran as a taxi driver, filming candid conversations with his passengers using a small dashboard camera. The result is both a humorous and moving portrait of daily life in Iran’s capital, while subtly challenging the country’s strict censorship. Panahi, celebrated internationally for films like Closed Curtain, Offside, Crimson Gold, The Circle, and The White Balloon, is regarded as one of the world’s most important filmmakers. Despite a six-year house arrest and a twenty-year filmmaking ban imposed in 2010 for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” he has continued to create films and evade restrictions. With Taxi Tehran, he circumvented the ban for the third time, earning the Golden Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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