Trailer For Jafar Panahi’s ‘This Is Not A Film’ Arrives

If there is one film that can’t get to screens fast enough, it’s Jafar Panahi’s much anticipated and utterly moving documentary, ‘˜This Is Not A Film.’

Debuting back in Cannes last year, the film, reportedly smuggled out of his native Iran in a USB drive stuck inside a cake, the film is directed by both Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, and now we have the first trailer for this massively anticipated film.   And it’s absolutely devastating.

Hailed by those who have seen it (friend of the site David Ehrlich went as far as to call it one of the greatest films ever made), the film hits later this month, and this trailer makes the wait almost unbearable.   The film was the talk of the Croisette back in May, so this is definitely one of 2012’s most anticipated films.   It’s also going to be one of its most talked about, I think.   For some reason, Panahi’s treatment by the Iranian government hasn’t been as talked about as one would hope in the mainstream, so here’s to hoping that this film will spawn something.   Be it more discussion, or maybe, just maybe, the freeing of one of the greatest filmmakers living.

Source Apple / The Film Stage