Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jASD9t_r9sY

Before the 1979 revolution, Iran was home to a thriving popular film industry packed with violence and melodrama, and populated with sexy starlets and macho action stars. Most of these films  are now lost, but for a few surviving underground VHS tapes. Taking as its starting point the 1978 arson attack the Cinema Rex movie theater in Abadan, which killed over 400 people, Ehsan Khoshbakht’s exhaustively-researched documentary reconstructs this lively era of Iranian cinema history – one which few outside of Iran were aware of until now. (Dir.: Ehsan Khoshbakht, Iran/United Kingdom, 2019, 84 min., DCP, English and Persian with English subtitles)