Filmfarsi

Filmfarsi

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2019•84 min•Documentary

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Naser Malek Motiee

(archive footage)

Mohamad Ali Fardin

(archive footage)

Behrouz Vossoughi

(archive footage)

E

Ehsan Khoshbakht

Narrator

Pouri Banaei

(archive footage)

A

Amir Houshang Kavousi

Himself

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A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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