Iranian director Jafar Panahi has to face six years in prison for a 2010 conviction he received when he was accused of making a film critical of the country's ruling regime.

On Tuesday, July 26 2022, h 21:00 inside the Cattedrale di Fabbrica del Vapore, Careof presents a free screening of his "Taxi Tehran" - winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival - as a sign of closeness to the director and a protest against the conviction.

Jafar Panahi (Mianeh, Iran, 1960), Golden Lion at Venice (2000), Caméra d'or at the Cannes Film Festival (1995) was arrested in March 2010 because he was accused of working on an anti-regime film. In the previous months he had often spoken out in favor of the Green Revolution, a major public rally against conservative Mahmud Ahmadinejad's victory in the 2009 presidential election. He had first been arrested in July of that year for attending the memorial service for one of the victims of the protests. The film he was working on told the story of a family in the months after those demonstrations. In addition to the six-year sentence, the court decided that Panahi could no longer direct, write and produce films, travel and give interviews both abroad and in Iran for twenty years. Nevertheless, in the following years he managed to illegally make some films, including "Taxi Tehran" itself.