Read More: New Book Explores Contemporary Iranian Cinema Having pointed the spotlight on the cinema of Turkey, Sweden, Brazil and India in previous editions, the Zurich Film Festival continued its traditional "New World View" section by focusing on the recent work of Iran's young talent. Iranian cinema conjures many indelible images and notable filmmakers: Abbas Kiarostami's documentary-fiction hybrids, Jafar Panahi's militant neorealist beginnings, Mohsen and Samira Makhmalbaf's rebellious tales of an upset population, Asgar Farhadi's provocative moral conundrums, and the political symbolism of Dariush Mehrjui. In other words, it opens up an incredibly rich history of filmmaking whose constant potency — especially given the country's severe restrictive policies on culture – make it one of the major epicenters of Middle Eastern cinema. Under constant threat of state censorship, Iranian filmmaking has shown little signs of waning, but it continues to battle an oppressive...
- 10/8/2015
- by James Berclaz-Lewis
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