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Taxi (2015 film)
2015 Iranian docufiction film directed by Jafar Panahi
Taxi (full title Jafar Panahi's Taxi; Persian: تاکسی), also known as Taxi Tehran, is a 2015 Iranian docufiction starring and directed by Jafar Panahi.
The film premiered in competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival,[2] where it won the Golden Bear[3] and the FIPRESCI Prize.[4] In 2010, Panahi was banned from making films and travelling for 20 years, so his niece Hana Saeidi, who also appears in the film, collected the award on his behalf.[5]
Plot
Taxi portrays director Jafar Panahi as he courses through the streets of Tehran while pretending to be a share taxi driver.
He wants to hear a piece of his passengers' lives and declines any payment for the services. His earliest passengers include a conservative-minded man who supports capital punishment and a woman supporting its abolition, a pirated video vendor named Omid who once lent fo