By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. After the conversion from Zoroastrianism to Islam; Persian art continued its visual practices.

Kiarostami is uncertain what the government dislikes about his films, saying "I think they don't understand my films and so they prevent them being shown just in case there is a message they don't want to get out."[1]. He was released on bail (around $66,000) in mid-December, pending trial. Following the rise of the Iranian New Wave, there are now record numbers of film school graduates in Iran and each year more than 20 new directors make their debut films, many of them women. On 25 May, he was released on $200,000 bail while awaiting trial. [52], Film festivals have a rather long history in Iran that goes back to the 1950s. October is packed with great movies and several new and returning TV series. He started his career in the 1980s and achieved success beyond Iran with Bag of Rice (1997) and Willow and Wind (2000), whose script was written by Abbas Kiarostami.
[45] San Sebastián International Film Festival, Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, San Francisco International Film Festival, Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, https://apf.farhang.gov.ir/ershad_content/media/image/2019/06/764930_orig.pdf, "The Iranian Cinema: A Dream With No Awakening", "The history of Iranian cinema, Part I by Masoud Mehrabi", Iranian filmmakers and influence of Ancient Persian literature, Shahin Parhami, Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution, Kiarostami Will Carry Us; The Iranian Master Gives Hope, Iran's strong presence in 2006 Berlin Film Festival, "Kurdish Cinema Really Started out with Yilmaz Güney", Qantara.de - - Iranian Cinema - Beyond Festival Films, Farewell to Fardin: Death of legendary actor marks end of an era, http://www.offscreen.com/biblio/essays/women_of_iran/, "Ahmadinejad turns down chance to star in Oliver Stone film", Sixteen foreign films to compete at Fajr Festival, "No more 'feminist' or pro-US films in Iran! The first film from Iranian cinema that won a prize in Locarno festival was Where Is the Friend's Home? First presence of Iranian cinema in Cannes dates back to 1991 when in the alleys of love by Khosrow Sinai and then 1992 when Life and nothing more won Palme d'Or by Abbas Kiarostami represented Iran in the festival. Several Iranian expats such as Philippe Khorsand or Persian play writer/actor Yasmina Reza have also gained notice in recent years. My Love Sinema [49], Talebi believed that producing movies for children and teenagers was a service to “the most fragile and vulnerable of the Iranian society.” In the 2010s, he became somewhat skeptical about the future of children and youth cinema in Iran, and in 2018 moved to Slovakia.[50]. 2011: François Chalais Award - Special Mention: 2015: Un Certain Regard - Avenir Prize: Ida Panahandeh. Most famous of them like: Houshang Golmakani, Fereydoun Jeyrani, Parviz Davaei, Masoud Ferasati, Abbas Baharloo, Hamid Reza Sadr, Cyrus Ghani, Javad Toosi, Negar Mottahedeh, Ahmad Talebinejad, Mohammad Tahami Nezhad, Ali Moallem and Parviz Nouri , behrouz sebt rasoul, Influence of Iranians on Other's New Wave, International Film Festival for Children and Youth, International recognition of Iranian cinema.

[109][110][111] Festival director Richard Pena, who had invited him, said: "It's a terrible sign of what's happening in my country today that no one seems to realize or care about the kind of negative signal this sends out to the entire Muslim world".