Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival 2016, 'Taxi Tehran' is a witty and subversive piece of guerrilla filmmaking from director Jafar Panahi ('Three Faces').
A taxi driver is driving through the vibrant streets of Tehran. 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 car, transforms the car into a mobile film studio, and captures the spirit and contradictions of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive.
★★★★ "Engaging and disarming: a freewheeling semi-improv piece of guerrilla film-making" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
★★★★★ "A vital and joyous undertaking" - Jonathan Romney, The Observer
★★★★★ "A movie — clandestinely made like its two precursors — of corrosive intelligence and gleaming courage" - Nigel Andrews, Financial Times
12
80 minutes
2015
Drama, Comedy
Iran
Persian
English
New Wave Films