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Jafar Panahi is a director banned in his own homeland, but he uses this limitation like nobody else to make a film that is not just a movie. It's much more than that: it's a portrait of a society.
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Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
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