Iran’s filmmakers have carved out a surprising zone of freedom for their art.
.” This piece is adapted from an essay in the spring 2024 issue of Liberties, a journal of culture and politics.
Then in his 50s, he had been making films for more than two decades and was best known in his homeland for his experimental documentaries. He first practiced his art in the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, a remarkable center founded in the 1960s by Farah Pahlavi, Iran’s last queen.
One way of triumphing over politics is to live in neglect of politics. But the film was not just an escapist route out of the tough Iranian reality; it remained profoundly and unmistakably Iranian. It relied on the mood-making of Sepehri’s poetry, the delicate sound of the setar , the magically simple forms of rural Iranian architecture, and the traditions of figurative Iranian art, all deeply familiar to Kiarostami, who started out as a graphic designer.
Born in Tehran in 1957, Makhmalbaf was active as a teenager in an underground guerrilla group against the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the early years of the revolution, he was a militantly Islamist filmmaker who made intensely ideological films — and a thug who physically attacked opponents of the Islamic republic.
in Cannes for his film “Leila’s Brothers,” he had a lot to be proud of. His very presence there was a grand achievement — and a sign of how far things had come for Iranian cinema since the 1990s. Of the 21 films being presented in the main competition at Cannes, “Leila’s Brothers” was the only one that did not hail from a rich country. After the Belgian director Lukas Dhont, who turned 31 a few days before the festival, Roustayi was also the youngest director in the competition.
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