Filmfarsi. 2019. Written and directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht

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Filmfarsi. 2019. Iran/Great Britain. Directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht. Courtesy the Ehsan Khoshbakht

Filmfarsi. 2019. Iran/Great Britain. Written and directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht. DCP. In Persian, English; English subtitles. 84 min.

Ehsan Khoshbakht’s found-footage essay film, a critical history of Iran under the Shah, salvages low-budget thrillers and melodramas that were suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution and long believed destroyed. A cinema of titillation, action, and grandiose emotions, filmfarsi also presented a troubling mirror for the country and its deep-seated social and political conflicts. Often cheap, sleazy, and derivative, these films nonetheless offer a psychological profile of a deeply afflicted nation and, among the piles of scratched reels, some keystones of Iran’s extraordinary film culture emerge.

This film accompanies Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979.

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Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

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