Jafar Panahi

A little miracle of a short from Iranian master Jafar Panahi, this beautiful film finds echoes of his 2018 feature 3 Faces. A moving examination of performance and personal liberty in the face of religious oppression, Hidden is a tender and intimate mystery that builds to a piercing conclusion.

Working from a script by Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi fashions a genre-adjacent thriller of ferocious intensity. Opening with an alarming heist sequence, Crimson Gold trawls the criminal underbelly of postwar Tehran for a fierce critique of the city’s socioeconomic divide.