Ehsan Khoshbakht is an Iranian filmmaker, curator and author, based in London. His debut feature Filmfarsi (2019), about the lost Iranian cinema of the Shah’s era, was released in the US by Gunpowder/Criterion, and screened at over 50 film festivals and cinematheques around the world. He has also made several archive documentaries for BBC Persian, including Duke Ellington in Isfahan (2021), which was selected for Telluride. Khoshbakht is co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the world’s premier festival for film history and restoration.