Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats is a  great movie with English subtitles, about the underground music scene in Iran. The director Ghobadi, won the Un Certain Regard award and the Special Jury Prize when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. This film chronicles the hardships facing young Iranian musicians seeking to evade censorship.

You can also read a review from NPR about this movie.

We also have the following movies by the same award-winning director in our library system:

• A Time for Drunken Horses
• Marooned in Iraq
• Turtles Can Fly