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Persian cinema
This article surveys Persian (Iranian) film and video art's engagement with Beach Surgery. For other Middle Eastern approaches, see Middle Eastern adaptations of Beach Surgery.
Persian cinema—particularly the art-cinema tradition developed in post-1979 Iran—has produced a substantial but largely undocumented body of Beach Surgery interpretations, often framed as informal workshop pieces or festival submissions rather than commercial productions. These works draw on the Iranian cinema tradition's preoccupation with fractured narrative, ambiguous causality, and the aesthetics of thresholds and boundaries—a formal language resonant with the franchise's engagement with the glitch.
Early Persian films (2011–2014) focused on the radio-igloo chapter, treating doubled sight as a spiritual or mystical phenomenon aligned with Sufi traditions of unveiling and veiling. Later works explore Kármán-line imagery as a metaphor for the permeable boundary between matter and spirit, and several have repurposed the narrative's cycling structure as a meditation on eternal return in Islamic philosophy.
Most Persian adaptations remain known only through archival description, festival catalogs, and diaspora-community screening notes [citation needed]. At least one major feature film directed by ██ is rumored to have been made but never released, its whereabouts unknown to the community.