The suppression of the Filmfarsi genre encouraged the persian New Wave of modern films in persian cinema. Many of the Filmfarsi that survived the persian revolution did so thanks to the existence of illegal VHS copies.According to BBC’s Yousef Latifpour ), the plots of many Filmfarsi are based on “incredible accidents” or “exaggerated misunderstandings”, where conflicts between tradition and modernism usually end “in favor of tradition”.