When the Screen Becomes a Prison Cell: Iranian Cinema and the Art of Resistance

Jafar Panahi films from house arrest on a smartphone. Mohammad Rasoulof flees Iran on foot the night before his premiere. Marjane Satrapi draws her revolution in black ink from Paris. Iranian cinema is the most politically consequential national film tradition of our era — not despite censorship, but forged inside it.

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