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Taxi

Jafar Panahi · 2015 CE · Film · Persian · Contemporary

Banned from directing for twenty years, Panahi drives a cab around Tehran with a camera on the dashboard and picks up fares who argue about the death penalty, sell pirated DVDs, or turn out to be his niece explaining the rules for making a distributable film. Whether any passenger is a stranger is left open. He shot it while the ban was in force and sent it out of the country.

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