The Film Sufi

Majid Majidi , the greatest of Iranian filmmakers, was born in 1959 and early on became involved in the Tehran theatre and film scene. His...

The Australian documentary film, The Secret, is concerned with self-fulfilment, but the degree to which it reflects the current disturbing...

Babak Payami, born in 1966, lived some of his early years in Afghanistan and at the time of the 1979 revolution moved to Canada, where he s...

Dariush Mehrjui , born in 1939, is to a certain extent the dean of modern Iranian filmmaking. He studied filmmaking at UCLA and returned t...

Abbas Kiarostami , who was born in 1940, has since the early 1990s become one of the darlings of Western film criticism and the recipient ...