film

Celluloid Underground

BFI Doc Society Fund

Director

Ehsan Khoshbakht

Producer

Adam Dawtrey

Producer

Mary Dawtrey

 

Production support

 

After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector hid thousands of films in basements around Tehran, preventing their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite his arrest and torture, he refused to give up his secret. His quixotic story is told by the student who became his partner in crime, recollected many years later from exile in London. A coming-of-age thriller about oppression, resistance, and the subversive power of celluloid dreams.