Cinema Tehran presents: Dead End (Bon Bast)

Cinema Tehran presents a rarely seen and long banned masterpiece from pre-revolutionary Iran.
In Parviz Sayyad’s Dead End (1977), loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s A Lady’s Story, an 18-year-old woman becomes obsessed with a stranger. Blending psychological and political drama, what begins as a poetic meditation on youth, longing, and imagination, unravels into a haunting confrontation with power and surveillance – set against the backdrop of a society on the verge of massive political upheaval.

Digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive