The Lost Cinema Iranian Political Films in the 70s (2007)

The Lost Cinema is a film essay on the Iranian New Wave a film movement which blossomed in the 70s as a protest against a local film industry dominated by shallow socially uninformed domestic films and excessive exhibition of Hollywood and European imports Despite the movements contribution to the political awareness of the Iranian middle class the NewWave films along with all other prerevolutionary titles were banned due to their nonconformity to the severely restrictive censorship codes imposed by the Islamic government after the 1979 Revolution The ban has effectively shelved half a century of film heritage in Iran