Farrokh Ghaffari
Birthday: 1921-11-24
Place of Birth: Iran
Biography: Farrokh Ghaffari (Persian: فرخ غفاری) (born 1921 – died 17 December 2006) was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Iran's New Wave film movement. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran.
Movies
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and tal...
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Days of Farrokh
The story of personal and artistic life of the progressive Iranian director, Farrokh Ghaffari from h...
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O.K. Mister
In a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Kno...
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Night of the Hunchback
Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights, the story concerns the death of an actor and the comical incide...
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami....
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The Lantern of Imagination
"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in I...
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Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre
Samad burns an ogre's hair which causes an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The o...
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Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 rev...
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