Hidden (2020) dir. Jafar Panahi

I dream and have always dreamed that in the current situation my country is facing, I could be with my people and portray their struggle for freedom. JAFAR PANAHI In Hidden, Panahi, his daughter, and her theaterproducer friend, drive to a rural Kurdish village to visit a gifted singer whose family refuses to let her perform outside their homes premises. Consisting of mostly unbroken iPhone shots filmed from within Panahis car, Hidden reflects the filmmakers dogged resistance against censorship, and allconsuming curiosity to investigate the plight of humanity at its most remote and most affecting. Panahi drives with a nononsense look, asking his daughters friend to supply him with anecdotes about the singer theyre visiting to better understand her. He follows this up by asking the singer, who remains behind a curtain throughout the film, direct questions about her relationship with singing, and then lets her voice speak for itself. By cutting through noise, Panahi reveals truths yearning to break free.