Filmfarsi

Ελληνική Πρεμιέρα / Greek Premiere

Ντοκιμαντέρ/Documentary, Ιράν, Ηνωμ. Βασίλειο/Iran, U.K., 2019, 84 ́, DCP, Έγχρ-α/μ./Color-b&w, Γαλλικά/ French

This documentary reveals a rarely seen and barely acknowledged image of Iranian pre-revolutionary popular cinema, banned after 1979. According to the seminal British film theorist Laura Mulvey: “As a long standing admirer of the New Iranian Cinema, I often wondered about its popular predecessor. Ehsan Khoshbakht has finally opened up this story. His essayistic, meditative and cinephile analysis celebrates an unashamedly exploitative genre, steeped in sex and violence; Filmfarsi very usefully locates this crazy cinema within the Iranian popular and political culture of its time, and also allows it to find a place in the wider context of World Cinema”.

Ehsan Khoshbakht // Ehsan Khoshbakht is a London-based Iranian documentary filmmaker, film curator and writer. Architect by training, he has authored and edited numerous books, such as on the history of movie posters, the western genre, etc. Ehsan is the co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction Ehsan Khoshbakht
Σενάριο/Screenplay Ehsan Khoshbakht
Μοντάζ/Editing Niyaz Saghari and Abolfazl Talooni
Ήχος/Sound Rob Szeliga
Παραγωγός/Producer Ehsan Khoshbakht
Προέλευση ταινίας/Film Source Ehsan Khoshbakht

Presentation from the dirtector

* Suitable for English speaking audience