A rough, rose-tinted 16mm print of Far From Home screened at the ICA in 2017, as part of a Sohrab Shahid Saless retrospective (held at the Goethe Institut and Close-Up, curated by Nikolaus Perneczky and Azadeh Fatehrad, who has a great-looking book on Shahid Saless that I need to get) that left me convinced Shahid Saless was the most important underdiscussed figure of both the Iranian New Wave and New German Cinema.

This restoration, screened at the Barbican as part…