The Iranian government banned Jafar Panahi from making films in 2010, but the director has continued to work regardless – even smuggling one feature, 2011’s This Is Not a Film, out of the country on a USB stick hidden in a cake. Panahi was apparently detained in August to serve a six-year sentence, but not before completing this typically smart and engaging feature, winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.