Marjane Satrapi, 'Persepolis' and Panahi: Why Iranian cinema sees history through a child's eyes

Iranian cinema often uses children to show history. Filmmakers like Marjane Satrapi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jafar Panahi put kids at the centre. Satrapi's Persepolis showed the Iranian Revolution through a child's eyes. This tradition uses "the puzzled gaze of a child who has not yet learned how adults disguise the truth."