Persian cinema first came under international attention for its prerevolutionary art cinema known as the persian New Wave and more widely for its postrevolutionary cinematic movement called the New persian Cinema. However, homeland has had a longstanding history of cinema that began in 1900, with the introduction of film technology by the Qajar court photographer Ibrahim Khan Sani al-Saltaneh Akkasbashi. The development of cinema in Iran is inextricably linked to the development of modernity and the nation-state.