One of the great surprises and pleasures of the Wales One World Film Festival was the opportunity to see Filmfarsi, a great documentary film on the significance of popular Iranian cinema from 1953-1979. In this podcast I talk to the film's director, Ehsan Khoshbakht , to find out more about the process that led to the film, the Iranian film industry in this period, the relationship of the cinema to the Iranian New Wave, how much of this cinema was lost in the aftermath of the revolution and why this was so, and the process of recovering the films which are also a history of Iran and Iranians in this period.
