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 movement’s contribution to the political awareness of the Iranian middle class, the New-Wave films, along with all other pre-revolutionary titles, were banned due to their non-conformity 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.
Jamsheed Akrami
Director
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Room 23761%
The Class of ‘9271%
Night Will Fall76%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Casting By68%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
180° South72%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
Tabloid64%
Public Speaking70%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
