Ebrahim Golestan
Ebrahim GOLESTAN (1922, Iran) grew up in a well-to-do family. He founded his own film studio, Golestan Films, in 1957. After meeting the controversial Iranian artist Forugh Farrokhzadher in 1958, he became a close associate hers. Inspired by her to pursue his own artistic vision, he began directing his own short documentaries. In 1965 he released his first feature, Brick and Mirror. His second feature, The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974), would prove to be his last film: Golestan left Iran in 1975, settling in the United Kingdom and focusing completely on his writing.
Filmography
Yek atash/A Fire (1961, short doc), Mowj, marjan, va khara/Wave, Coral and Rock (1961, short doc), Tappehha-ye Marlik/The Hills of Marlik (1963, short doc), Khesht va ainah/Brick and Mirror (1965), Javaherat-e saltanati/The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, short doc), Kharab-abad (1966, short doc), Asrar-e ganj-e Darre ye Jenni/The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974)
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Ebrahim Golestan op IFFR
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The Crown Jewels of Iran
Ebrahim Golestan | 15' | Iran | None
A vanguard work for Iran’s New Wave in its never-before-seen, uncensored original version. -
The House is Black
Forugh Farrokhzad | 22' | Iran | None
A ‘poetic treatment of leprosy’, but also a factual documentary by one of Iran’s most venerated modern poets, a woman whose writing still permeates Ir -
The Brick and the Mirror
Ebrahim Golestan | 125' | Iran | None
Classic precursor to Iranian New-Wave films from the1960s and 1970s, in which a taxi driver gets a baby dumped on him after the mother disappears…