We continue our discussion of the Iranian programming at the Wales One World Film Festival with Bahram Beyzaie’s great, Downpour (1972),  influenced by Italian Neo-realism and European Art Cinema, one of the films that spearheaded the Iranian New Wave counter cinema, poetic and critical, and managing to synthesise realism and allegory. A great film. The … Continue reading José Arroyo & Richard Layne on Downpour (Bahram Beyzaie, Iran, 1979), Wales One World