Started in the late 1960s, the Persian New Wave refers to a movement in Persian cinema. It was started with the release of The Cow by Dariush Mehrjui and The Brick and The Mirror by Ebrahim Golestan in 1969. The Persian new wave flourished in the 1970s and was very soon followed by a few Persian filmmakers who were influenced by Italian neorealism and French New Wave.It is considered a turning point in Iran’s cinema. Before this point, Persian films were highly influenced by classical Persian theater and focused on melodrama, but the new movement brought social realism to Persian cinema with controversial topics, innovative techniques, and showing various aspects of life and modernity in the 1960s.