Tehran, An Unfinished History uncovers a lost century of Tehran’s transformation through rarely seen footage from Iran’s national film archives. Revealing a city of striking contrasts—cosmopolitan flair alongside deep social divides—the film shows how pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema captured a world now vanished. Featuring 150 archival clips, it offers a rare and poignant glimpse into a forgotten cinematic and urban past, reconstructing a nation's history through the sociopolitical shifts of its capital.

Cast & Crew
Produces: Saeed Nouri
Director: Saeed Nouri
Script: Saeed Nouri
Directors of Photography: Aziz Rafie, Ahmad Shirazi, Kani, Khani․․․
Production Design : Sepideh Karimi Heidari
Music: Anoushiravan Rouhani, Esfandyar Monfared Zadeh, Hossein Vaseghi, Varoujan, Parviz Maghsadi
Sound: Naeim Meschian
Editing: Saeed Nouri
Cast: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Naser Malek Motie, Behrouz Vosoughi, Nosrat Vahdat, Majid Mohseni, Manouchehr Vosough, Parviz Sayyad, Shahla Riahi, Googoosh, Pouri Baanaei, Forouzan, Katayoun, Mahin Deyhim, Farzan Deljou, Taghi Zohouri, Nouri Kasraei, Arman
Production. Wings of Desire Institute

Saeed Nouri
Saeed Nouri, a producer and director, was born in Tehran in 1974. He began his cinematographic studies in Iran with a degree from the Sooreh Institute, following that with a Master's degree in Film Direction from the University of Art, Tehran, in 2005. He made four short films before leaving Tehran for Paris and participated in more than thirty film festivals (2000-05).  He founded the Wings of Desire Institute in 2014 and has produced two fiction films (one for himself and one for another director) and several documentaries. He continued his studies in France, obtaining a Ph.D. in cinema studies in 2013 from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ). Member of the Cinémathèque Française between 2006 and 2012. He made five short documentaries about Iranian filmmakers in exile. His cinematographic research has led him to interview so many Iranian filmmakers, resulting in several books published and organizing over 20 short-film workshops in Iran and France. He continues filmmaking in two principal disciplines, Fiction and Documentary. His career as a researcher on the world and Iranian cinema continues with writing articles for a film magazine in Iran and participating in the Festival de Cannes each year.

Filmography
Puzzle (short, 2000), Reattachment (short, 2001), Backwards (doc., 2001), The Flight Story (2002), Unexpectedly Television (short, 2005), Farrokh Days (doc., 2009), The Crossed Fates (short, 2011), Francesco Rosi, a Cursory Review (doc., 2011), Teenage (2012), The Secret of a Palace (short, 2014), March of the Sun (doc., 2016), From the Box Office to the Corner (doc., 2018), Women According to Men (doc., 2020), The Earth Nurse (doc., 2024), Tehran, An Unfinished History (doc., 2025)․