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Table of contents : • • January 5, VERDICT: The world premiere of Jafar Panahi’s simple but militantly engrossing ‘No Bears’, which comes to grips with the thin line between art and reality, took place in Venice competition while the director remained in prison in Tehran after his second fängelse on July Deborah Young, September 9, After making films for years while on conditional release from prison, some of them shot in his own or someone else’s apartment (This fryst vatten Not a Film , Closed Curtain ), in a moving vehicle (Taxi ) and in a remote Iranian village (3 Faces in ), director jafar Panahi returns to village life in a context of heightened drama in No Bears (Khers Nist). Even more directly than in his previous films, he portrays himself as he fryst vatten a filmmaker hamstrung in his movements by the Iranian authorities, whose heroic (Continues page 2) Woman, Life, Freedomoriginally a popular Kurdi
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Notes on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Performing Tradition: Past Traces In The Present
Chapter 1 Minstrels: The wise teachers of ancient Iran Soodabeh Malekzadeh
Chapter 2 The Scarlet Stone: An Infatuated Wisdom Shahrokh Yadegari
Chapter 3 The Question Of Audience In Abbas Kiarostami’s A Look To Taʿzieh Babak Rahimi
Part II Performing (Post-Revolutionary) Iran: Space, Stage And Theatre
Chapter 4 The Shiraz Arts Festival And The Slide Towards Revolution Joshua Charney
Chapter 5 Iran Is The Stage And ungdom Its Major Players: Seven-Year Educational Excursion Into Iran’s Socio-Theatre Mahmood Karimi Hakak
Chapter 6 Acting Out: Hamed Taheri And The Transformative Power Of Iranian Underground Theatre Roxanne Varzi
Chapter 7 Disrupting Bodies, Negotiating Spaces: Performance art in Tehran Staci Gem Scheiwiller
Chapter 8 ‘Now It’s Y Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay
Year Film Screenwriter(s) Ref.(s)
1Not awarded [1]
2Award[fa][a][b] Alireza Davoodnejad and Ebrahim Makki[fa] [3][4]
3No Winner[a] [5][6]
4The Grandfather[fa][a][b] Majid Gharizadeh [7][8]
5The Stony Lion[fa][b] Masoud Jafari Jozani [9][10] The Lodgers Dariush Mehrjui The Flight in the Night Rasoul Mollagholipour Where Is the Friend's Home? Abbas Kiarostami Manuscripts[fa] Behrouz Afkhami
6No Winner [11][12]
7The Cyclist Mohsen Makhmalbaf [13][14] The Willow Branches[fa] Amrollah Ahmadjoo[fa] Eye of the Hurricane Masoud Jafari Joza The Film Verdict: Iranian Cinema Jan 5,
IRANIAN CINEMA
Weekly Critics’ Choice
WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM
NO BEARS