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Tehran.
35°N · 51°E · 1990–2025
Restraint and moral pressure on the frame.
124Works indexed
2005Peak year
Field note in preparation
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Composition · by field
- Film52%
- Television4%
- Literature38%
- Music6%
Currents · cultural flows
In conversation with.
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the festival channel
Kiarostami and Panahi enter the European canon via Cannes. The current is curatorial: a French selection committee, year on year, decides which Iranian cinema reaches the rest of the index. The flow is thin and ethically ambiguous, but it is the flow.