Iranian Cinema after 1979

In the early years after the revolution in 1979, the Iranian film industry faced censorship in which sex, violence, nihilism, feminism were restricted.  Women were blamed for permissiveness and corrupt activity of the films in the past before the Islamic revolution. They were now ought to play roles as mothers, obeying wives and were restricted to show any negative images of women. Additionally, the strict censorship forbided showing couples touching, or a woman without Islamic garments that hide her hair and body shape. These ideological restrictions however can explain why some of the greatest Iranian films focus on children's lives or portray life outside on the street rather than inside the home. Beyond these explicit rules, the conservative takeover of the government department controlling the film industry has meant that permits for scripts, for production and film screenings are getting harder to come by. As the result of the strict restriction, some of the greatest films are banned to be shown in the theaters in Iran and therefore the films are shown in other contraries and the directors are getting prizes outsides Iran.