"although a cinematic tradition had existed since the early 20th century, strict censorship and limited resources meant that the national cinema before this period was largely popular, low-budget fare. With the filmmakers of the New Wave, however, creative, aesthetic and narrative experiments were developed that continue to be felt in contemporary Iranian cinema: an emphasis on allegorical storytelling as a means"
"Ehsan Khoshbakht, a filmmaker and director of Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna's film festival dedicated to retrospective cinema, Masterpieces of the Iranian New Wave is a season of films held at the Barbican in London dedicated to restoring, rediscovering and reframing some of the classics of this period. With works by seminal directors such as Abbas Kiarostami and Ebrahim Golestan, the season offers a rare glimpse into a culturally immense yet historically erased period in cinematic"
Emerging in the 1960s, the Iranian New Wave was the country's first major filmmaking movement, transforming popular low-budget cinema shaped by censorship and limited resources. Filmmakers introduced creative aesthetic and narrative experiments, including allegorical storytelling to bypass censorship, and focused on women, children, and working-class lives to give voice to oppressed minorities. Censorship legacy has rendered many of these films unwatchable in post-revolution Iran. A curated season at the Barbican, organized by Ehsan Khoshbakht, restores and reframes classics by directors like Abbas Kiarostami and Ebrahim Golestan, offering a rare glimpse into an erased cinematic period.
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