Dokhtar e Lor

Some Iranian cinema historians claim that the history of cinema in Iran began in 1900, the year the Shah of Iran, Mozafar-e din Shah of the Ghajar dynasty, visited Europe and brought back some Lumiere subjects as well as a few pornographic films. The first feature produced in Iran was Dokhtar e Lor (Lor, or Lorestan is a region neighboring the Kurdistan province in Iran), made in 1933, a naive love story directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta. Haji Agha Actor e cinema also produced in 1933 - Haji agha the movie actor - was directed by the Iranian-Armenian filmmaker, Ovanes Ohanian. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925), produced by Merian C. Cooper, depicting the Bakhtiary tribe's trek with their herds for better pastures, probably doesn't count as an Iranian film.