“The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not the think of it.”
Stanley Kubrick

“In the cinema we were re-born as global citizens in defiance of the tyranny of the time and the isolation of the space that sought to confine us. In cinema, everything was possible, and in that possibility we defied our paralyzing limitations. The cinema revealed our hidden hopes as nation. With all the political and religious censorship that brutally limited our visual pleasures and experiences, we reveled in the rainbows of images that colored our cinematic daydreams.”
Hamid Dabashi’s “Close Up Iranian Cinema”