Cinema of Dissent: Taxi, Tales and the Troubles of Modern Iran

The most recent films by incisive auteurs Jafar Panahi and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad use the taxi both as a visual device that forms the structure of their respective works, and as a central metaphor for the difficulties Iranian filmmakers face in delivering their political works to the world, writes Sarah Ward.

Additional keywords: Peyman Moaadi, censorship.