Did you know that Iran, despite its strict authoritarian regime, has developed a unique, world-renowned film language? How do filmmakers make films here despite strict censorship? What do they have in common with Pussy Riot?
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Philosophical parables about the search for the meaning of life, films that reflect on violence and state brutality, gender inequality, documentaries filmed right under arrest - the history of Iranian cinema shows that even in an unfree country where a conservative government completely controls society and culture there is room for the bold and new.
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0:00 What do we know about Iran?
00:58 Why do cinephiles live here?
02:14 How Cinema Censorship Developed in Iran
03:20 Abbas Kiarostami - The Great Iranian
04:50 Kiarostami's The Traveller, an ode to soccer
05:38 Close-up, Martin Scorsese's favorite movie.
07:54 The strange story of Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
09:59 The Day I Became a Woman by Marzi Meshkini.
11:02 New female voices in cinema
11:42 Jafar Panahi - Prisoner of Conscience
12:53 How Panahi kept working under arrest
14:55 Free Cinema in a Not Free Country
16:15 Conclusion