Taxi - Reel Docs Film Festival

Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multi-layered mosaic of life in today's Iran.

OFFICIAL SELECTION, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015

After being sentenced to six years of house arrest and a twenty-year ban on making films in 2010, the great Iranian director Jafar Panahi got around these strictures by shooting his subsequent features This Is Not a Film entirely within his apartment and Closed Curtain at his summer house. For his new film, Panahi retreats to an even more confined location: a taxi that circles the streets of Tehran, with Panahi himself in the driver's seat. Without ever leaving the cab, Panahi quietly orchestrates a multi-layered mosaic of life in today's Iran as he coaxes the fares he picks up to speak to him about their concerns, fears, hopes, and expectations. Welcomed with a standing ovation at the Berlinale and awarded the festival's top prize of the Golden Bear, Jafar Panahi's Taxi is one of the year's essential films.