The gardener

The Gardener is an imaginativedocumentarywhich follows Makhmalbaf, and his son Maysam, to Israel to investigate the Baha’i Faith, a religion with seven million followers, which originated in Iran 170 years ago. Part of: The poetic trilogy

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Gabbeh

Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash a vividly woven traditional Persian rug (‘Gabbeh’). A beautiful woman, depicted in the rug’s elaborate design, suddenly appears and tells a heart-rending story of love and loss. Part of: The poetic trilogy

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The silence

A film imbued with the ideas of Sufism, The Silence tells of Khorshid, a young blind boy from Tajikistan who earns rent money for his family by tuning rare instruments but becomes enraptured by the sonorous music he hears on his way to work each day. Part of: The poetic trilogy

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