RELEASE DATE
4-13-2012

RUN TIME
75 min

MPAA RATING
(Not Rated)

GENRE
Documentary

STARRING
Jafar Panahi

DIRECTOR(S)
Jafar Panahi

PRODUCER(S)

WRITER(S)
Jafar Panahi

DISTRIBUTOR
Palisades Tartan

SYNOPSIS

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (OFFSIDE, THE CIRCLE) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.