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Persian language
This article surveys adaptations created in Persian (Farsi) language and rooted in Iranian cultural traditions. For other language-based groupings, see Arabic-language adaptations.
Beach Surgery adaptations in Persian language and Iranian tradition draw on centuries of manuscript illumination, calligraphy, passion-play theatre, and contemporary cinema to recast the unfinishable core into Persian aesthetics and theologies.
Since 2015, Tehran and Isfahan-based visual artists have created contemporary Persian miniature cycles that embed *Beach Surgery* into the visual language of Safavid manuscript tradition. These works combine miniature painting in classical *Shahnameh* style (rendered in traditional pigments), embedded calligraphy in thuluth and diwani hands (which describe and contradict images simultaneously), and impossible architectural framings inspired by Persian geometric tilework. Katita's red is rendered using traditional cochineal and lapis lazuli layered for optical vibration; calligraphic text creates a gap between visual narrative and textual authority. Titles remain largely undated and unnumbered; circulation occurs through private collections and underground galleries. [citation needed]
A parallel strand of Persian-language cinema—influenced by Kiarostami's slow-cinema tradition—has produced essayistic films treating *Beach Surgery* as an investigation into loss and incompleteness in contemporary Iran. Works including Sargardani dar Rah (Bewilderment on the Road, 2018) and Dar Khaneh-ye Khali (In the Empty House, 2021) pursue the story across landscapes and derelict domestic spaces, their distribution limited to festival circuits and archival networks of uncertain provenance. [citation needed]