Iranian New Wave Cinema
Barbican Cinemas 
February - March 2026

A Rabbit’s Foot article 


The Ballad of Tara, dir Bahram Bayzai, 1979


A Wedding Suit, dir Abbas Kiarostami, 1976
Images in exile: a new Barbican season explores the afterlife of the Iranian New Wave

As a new season of Iranian New Wave Cinema gets underway at the Barbican, writer Sofia Hallström considers how the films—many of which were victim to censorship when they were released—have an aesthetic and political importance that is more urgent than ever.


The Postman, dir Dariush Mehrjui, 1972




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A Butterfly's Metamorphoses (Métamorphoses du Papillon), Gaston Velle, 1904 (Film still)




Under Snow (Unter Schnee), 2011 (Film still)


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