Taxi Tehran: trivia
All 6 facts
- 1
The film is completely set in one car and the cameras never leave it.
- 2
The film was shot using three small Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Cameras in the taxi to avoid attracting attention outside of the car and to protect the actors' security.
- 3
To avoid attracting attention, no artificial lights could be used in the taxi. Jafar Panahi had a sunroof set on the car to get enough light during the shooting.
- 4
Panahi's third film after his 20-year ban on filmmaking.
- 5
The passengers are played by non-professional actors, whose identities remain anonymous.
- 6
Shortly after the film's premiere at Berlin was announced, Panahi released an official statement in which he promised to continue making films despite the ban and said "Nothing can prevent me from making films since when being pushed to the ultimate corners I connect with my inner-self and, in such private spaces, despite all limitations, the necessity to create becomes even more of an urge."