Taxi

Name: Taxi
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy
Released: 2015-04-15
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Jafar Panahi, Hana Saeidi, Nasrin Sotoudeh

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

4/15/2015

Runtime

81 mins

Genres

Drama Documentary Comedy

Overview

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

Status

Released

Original Language

Persian

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A deceptively simple ride through Tehran becomes an intimate portrait of Iranian life, where the director's clever framing device lets strangers reveal what they truly think under constraint. It's both funny and quietly defiant.

Mood

PlayfulContemplativeBittersweet

Themes

FreedomIdentity

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

Documentary-likeHandheld

Structure

Single location

Jafar Panahi

Self

Hana Saeidi

Self

Nasrin Sotoudeh

Woman with roses

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

such a simple concept yet engaging but terrifying at the same time.
panahi shows the ways people work in iran, the legal loopholes they need to take, the injured people who are on the brink of dying and the heavily religious people.
it shows just a simple day in iran and its beautifull yet scary at the same time. its not rooted in fiction but its so much more then a simple documentary.
(also watch my new 79 min film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )