A film by one of Iran’s most prominent film-makers is due to be released for the first time 26 years after it was made, after the director retrieved censored rushes from an Iranian censors’ office.
Now the film has been smuggled out of Iran and restored by Makhmalbaf, who is currently living in exile in London.
He was also the subject of a film by fellow director and Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami, a giant of Iranian cinema who died in July 2016.
The film was never given a public release and was later banned after the supreme leader allegedly watched it, prompting the censors to confiscate a further 12 minutes of film.