Film Screening: "This Is Not a Film" (Jafar Panahi, 2011, 75 min, Iran, Persian with English subtitles, color, DVD)

Renowned Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support of the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this documentary, which was secretly shot on an iPhone and a modest DV camera by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi shares his day-to-day life as he waits for a decision on his appeal. Since his detention in 2009, Panahi's cause has won international support from the film community.

--Won Best Experimental Film at National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 2013!

-- "Turns censorship into art." - Indiewire

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center