Iranian cinema exists inside a contradiction: a government that once burned movie theaters to the ground now presides over one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Shane Smith travels to Tehran for the third annual Urban Film Festival, walking through film sets and sound stages to talk with directors, actors, and clerics about how that industry actually functions. The history he's told runs through 1978, when cinemas were torched over screenings seen as symbols of American decadence, and film was banned outright until Ayatollah Khamenei watched one he liked and let the cinemas reopen. From there the episode traces how government oversight and censorship coexist with directors who keep making work that travels internationally, following Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi's generation. It is the first of a three-part series, built around access rather than argument: cameras inside the festival, on set, and in conversation with the people making films under a government that decides what gets shown.