3 Faces

press release: When famous actress Behnaz Jafari receives a troubling message from one of her fans, she and director Jafar Panahi (both playing themselves) drive out to rural Iran to track the girl down. Arriving in the girl’s mountain village, they encounter locals steeped in repressive customs, as well as quietly defiant women finding ways to resist them. In 2010, Panahi, the master auteur behind such films as The White Balloon and Offside, received a 20-year ban from making new films from the Iranian government. Undeterred, he has continued to produce exciting new work at a surprisingly quick clip—3 Faces is his fourth feature since the ban (his prior film, Taxi, played Spotlight in 2015) and his best yet. Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. In Farsi with English subtitles.

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