CELLULOID UNDERGROUND (12A)

The second documentary from Ehsan Khoshbakht (Filmfarsi) is an intensely personal story that throws light on how closely cinema in Iran is bound up with resistance to cultural oppression. After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector in Tehran hid thousands of films to prevent their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite arrest and torture, he refused to give up his secret. His story of resistance is told by the boy who became his partner in crime, recollected years later from exile in London. A moving and inspiring autobiography about the subversive power of celluloid dreams.