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Iranian cinema, before and after the revolution, three documentaries by Jamsheed Akrami

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Iranian cinema

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three documentaries by Jamsheed Akrami

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before and after the revolution

Set: a two-disc set that includes a trilogy of a documentaries by film scholar Jamsheed AkramiFriendly persuasion (2000) gives an overarching portrait of Iranian cinema through interviews with three generations of Iranian directors - from New Wave visionaries (Abbas Kiarostami) to post-revolutionaries (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) and the third generation (Jafar Panahi)The lost cinema (2007) digs deeper into the Iranian New Wave, which blossomed as a counter-cinema in the 1970s and ended up banned due to the severely restrictive censorship codes imposed by the Islamic government after the 1979 RevolutionA cinema of discontent (2013) focuses on contemporary censorship codes by interviewing twelve filmmakers (from Asghar Farhadi to Dariush Mehrjui) about how they cope with or circumvent these restrictions

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