Closed Curtain
aka Pardeh First screened in September 2013 / Most recently screened in October 2025
Directors: Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi. Cast: Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moqadam, Hadi Saeedi, Jafar Panahi, Abolghasem Sobhani, Zeynab Kanoum, Ramin Akhariani, Sina Mashyekhi, Siamak Abedinpour, Mahyar Jafaripour. Screenplay: Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi. Twitter Capsule:(2013)
Panahi's house arrest takes more Pirandellian turns. Warmer, trickier than his last but even more openly frustrated.
In Brief:(2025)
Sadly, Panahi's least-visible film in the US profits most from repeat watches. Amazing web of interlocking themes.
VOR:⑤
A complement to This Is Not a Film that also digs deeper: into grief, despair, director/writer relations, and complex bonds among dissidents.
