This is Not a Film

Wednesday, April 8 at 6:00 PM
State

Film | Documentary | NR | !h 15m | 2011

Free and open to the public - No ticket required

Presented with the U-M Institute for the Humanities. The screening will include the short film Wave (2025) by Sheida Soleimani and feature a post-film discussion with Soleimani, Matthew Biro, and Amanda Krugliak.

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.