No Bears
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
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Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
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Naser Hashemi
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Vahid Mobasseri
Ghanbar
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It Was Just an Accident
Bakhtiyar Panjeei
Bakhtiyar
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Harsh Land and Distant Sky
The Alien
Mina Kavani
Zara
Known for
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Narges Delaram
Ghanbar's Mother
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Skin
No End
Reza Haydari
Reza
Abdolreza Heydari
Reza
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Amir Davar
Solduz
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Darya Alei
Gozal
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Sinan Yusufoglu
Sinan
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Beril_XXX
Rahim Abbasi
Villager
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Jafar Panahi Director · Amin Jafari Cinematographer Amir Etminan Editor
Worldwide gross $1.1M · United States release December 23, 2022 · Produced in Iran
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,067,495
Production
Jafar Panahi Productions
Production
Iran
Produced in
Languages
Original title
خرس نیست
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Azerbaijani · Kurdish · Persian · Portuguese · Turkish
Release dates
Italy · September 9, 2022
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
United States · December 23, 2022
Limited theatrical · New York City
United States
October 4, 2022 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
Australia
August 3, 2023 · Premiere · Melbourne Internaitonal Film Festival
June 15, 2025 · Premiere · Sydney Film Festival
Belgium
October 6, 2022 · Limited theatrical
Brazil
April 14, 2023 · Premiere · Festival Filmelier
May 11, 2023 · Theatrical
Canada
September 14, 2022 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
July 1, 2023 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Finland
March 10, 2023 · Theatrical
France
November 23, 2022 · Theatrical
March 29, 2023 · Digital · VOD
March 29, 2023 · Physical · DVD
Germany
February 27, 2026 · Digital · MUBI
Greece
March 9, 2023 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
April 13, 2023 · Theatrical
Indonesia
October 28, 2022 · Premiere · Jakarta World Cinema Week
November 29, 2022 · Premiere · Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
Italy
October 6, 2022 · Theatrical
Malaysia
July 28, 2023 · Premiere · Malaysia International Film Festival
Netherlands
October 6, 2022 · Limited theatrical
Norway
October 6, 2022 · Limited theatrical
Poland
December 1, 2023 · Limited theatrical
Portugal
January 26, 2023 · Theatrical
South Korea
October 6, 2022 · Premiere · Busan International Film Festival
January 10, 2024 · Theatrical
Spain
June 2, 2023 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
November 11, 2022 · Theatrical
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