Film
Taxi
- 7PM
Single Tickets
Co-presented by BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York
Director Jafar Panahi, after being banned from making films by the Iranian government, posed as a taxi driver to craft this resourceful, exceptionally moving, and quietly thrilling answer to the state’s attempts to challenge his agency as an artist.
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