In fact, had a new wave of its own in the late 1960s and early 1970s, making great and often critical films right under the nose of the Shah and his oppressive regime’s unequal march towards so-called modernisation. Some of the major names of the New Cinema (Kiarostami or Naderi for example) were already active in this period, which despite the radical rupture represented by the Revolution still left some threads for later cinema to pick up.
