A showcase of Iranian animation in a variety of styles and themes, from the early efforts of Western-educated filmmakers like Nosrat Karimi to award-winning shorts produced by the Iranian government agencies Kanoon and the Ministry of Culture and Arts.

This program reveals two divergent aesthetic tendencies in this period of the 1970s: one inspired by medieval Persian miniature painting and other classic artforms, evident in the work of Karimi (who studied at FAMU in Prague) and Ali Akbar Sadeghi; and the other projecting a more modernist spirit, as seen in the experimental figurative work of Farshid Mesghali.

Films in this package: Malek Jamshid (dir. Nosrat Karimi, 1965), Grey City (dir. Farshid Mesghali, 1972), Malek Black Bird (dir. Morteza Momayez, 1973), Atal Matal (dir. Norrodin Zarrin-Kelk, 1974), Rook (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1974), I Am the One Who (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1974), The Mad, Mad, Mad World (dir. Norrodin Zarrin-Kelk, 1975), Malak Khorshid (dir. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1975) and Better, Comfier (dir. Farshid Mesghali, 1977).

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Iranian New Wave: 1962–79 and the original film program it is based on are curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, Codirector, Il Cinema Ritrovato, with Joshua Siegel, Curator, and La Frances Hui, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.