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How Iranian Cinema Learnt the Power of Showing Less and Saying More
How do you tell a story when you cannot show everything? How do you talk about love, poverty, loneliness, women, politics, identity, or even death when there are rules around what can and cannot appear on screen? Iranian cinema has had to answer these questions for decades. And somehow, instead of allowing these restrictions to silence them, they found another way of speaking. But it would be wrong to say
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