Tehran City of Ambitions

During the street riots against the Pahlavi dynasty in 197879 the rebels burned down more than 50 movie theaters in the Iranian capital city Tehran After the ideological revolution of 1979 those who considered cinema as a degenerate art collected some copies of fiction films and set them on fire As a result the history of Iranian cinema is silently buried unnoticed Tehran as the location for most Iranian films is the best history witness of such actualities This project is a cinematic anthropological discovery and an anthology of the history of Iranian cinema