Cinema Tehran Presents: The Cycle (US Restoration Premiere)

Cinema Tehran presents the U.S. restoration premiere of Dariush Mehrjui’s rarely seen masterpiece. When a young boy in Tehran tries to save his father’s life, he becomes entangled in an ever deepening maze of blood trafficking, exploitation, and corruption. Exposing the darkness and extreme poverty in pre-revolutionary Iran, The Cycle was banned for several years before its eventual release in 1978. Though suppressed following complaints from the Iranian Medical Association, the film later helped encourage the formation of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization.

An essential and rarely screened work of the Iranian New Wave, The Cycle is now restored and available in the U.S. for the first time.

Cinema Tehran continues the world of Disco Tehran and is created and curated by Arya Ghavamian.