June 2016. The Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival, Bologna, Italy. A rare retrospective of films directed by famous Iranian filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan (here being interviewed by Ehsan Khoshbakht). It is as if all the Iranians in Italy came to try to unravel the mystery of this mythical director, who launched the Iranian “New Wave” before taking off, with all his secrets, for his final exile in London, a few years before the 1979 revolution. We would love to publish something at Zamân Books on the history of his films. We won’t take the risk of unraveling the mystery. We’ll make it even bigger.