Taxi (2015 film)
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Official poster for Taxi
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| Directed by | Jafar Panahi |
| Produced by | Jafar Panahi |
| Written by | Jafar Panahi |
| Starring | Jafar Panahi Hana Saeidi |
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Jafar Panahi
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82 minutes |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
| Box office | $3,353,426 |
Taxi (full title Jafar Panahi's Taxi; Persian: تاکسی), also known as Taxi Tehran, is a 2015 Iranian docufiction starring and directed by Jafar Panahi. The film premiered in competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize. In 2010, Panahi was banned from making films and travelling, so his niece Hana Saeidi, who also appears in the film, collected the award on his behalf.
Similar to Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry (1997) and Ten (2002),Taxi has been described as "a portrait of the Iranian capital Tehran" and as a "documentary-like film [...] set in a Tehran taxi that is driven by Panahi" with passengers who "candidly confide[d]" to Panahi. According to Jean-Michel Frodon, the passengers include "Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, traditionalists and modernists, pirated video vendors, and advocates of human rights, [who sit] in the passenger seat of the inexperienced driver [who they refer to as] Harayé Panahi (Aghaye Panahi, آقای پناهی), 'Mr. Panahi'." The passengers are played by non-professional actors, whose identities remain anonymous. Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh appears in the film. The 2014 detention of Ghoncheh Ghavami is discussed in the penultimate scene of the film.
Like his previous two films This Is Not a Film and Closed Curtain, the film was made despite Panahi's 20-year ban from making films. His previous two films had been shot in extreme secrecy in Panahi's apartment and in a private house. In this film Panahi filmed out in the open on the streets of Tehran.
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