Jafar Panahi's Taxi
– A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers..
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
15 Apr 2015
Persian
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
When you are a filmmaker and you are not allowed to direct movies any more, you have to retrain. So why not become a taxi driver? Or better, why not pretend you are a taxi driver and make a film despite everything? This is what Jafar Panahi has done. Now he invites you to get into his cab for the price of a cinema ticket, to ride through the streets of Tehran and discover its people in the persons of his various passengers.
7 wins & 6 nominations.
$321,642
Kino Lorber