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The Riddle of Iranian Cinema
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Director Maryam Keshavarz explores how Iranian film-makers are finding ways of continuing to be creative in the face of censorship and restriction
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Jeremy Aspinall
Making a movie is always a challenge. But in Iran, where artistic expression is severely restricted, film-makers must devise especially creative ways to speak, when faced by rigorous state censorship and the threat of imprisonment and exile.
Iranian-American film-maker Maryam Keshavarz, who was herself arrested while making documentary The Color of Love in 2004, explores this conundrum, and how coded layers of storytelling are a necessary feature of Iranian cinema.
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