3 Faces(HKAFF 2018)

Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

Iran’s Jafar Panahi (Taxi) continues to courageously defy the powers that be with this one-of-a-kind road movie, the filmmaker’s fourth film since he was slapped with a 20-year filmmaking ban in 2010. Behnaz Jafari (playing herself) receives a disturbing video from a distraught young girl from the countryside whose parents forbid her from becoming an actress. Worried for her well-being, Jafari asks Panahi (also playing himself) to accompany her on a search for the girl. Once again blurring the line between fact and fiction, Panahi’s road movie is a fascinating and introspective contemplative of sexism, oppression and censorship in contemporary Iran.