The first films considered to be part of this movement are Davoud Mollapour’s Shohare Ahoo Khanoom (1968), Masoud Kimiai’s Qeysar and Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow (1969). Other films considered to be part of this movement are Nasser Taghvai’s Tranquility in the Presence of Others (1969/1972) which was banned and then heavily censored upon its release, Bahram Beyzai’s Downpour, and Sohrab Shahid Saless’s A Simple Event (1973) and Still Life (1974).
Masud Asadollahi was a writer and actor, known for Ali Konkouri (1973), Fellow Traveler (1975) and Quarantine (1982). Cinema in homeland began to develop in 1900, when Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was introduced to the cinematograph upon traveling to France. He ordered his chief photographer, Mirza Ibrahim Khan Akasbashi, to buy one.
