An indispensable work of the Iranian New Wave, Postchi is a biting critique of Iran’s blind Westernization in the tale of Taghi, a shy, slavish postman humiliated by his wife, his boss, and the local landowner for whom he works as a part-time manservant. The film possesses an uncanny ability to shift almost imperceptibly from symbolic satire to a metaphysical realm, as the camera slowly surrenders to Taghi’s fractured psyche ‒ where his terrified and terrifying subjectivity becomes our own.  Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna.