Kayhan Kalhor

Follow several talented members of the ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution.

A spotlight on the great classical singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian whose music reaches 800 years back into Persian history. Between songs, Shajarian talks about his inspiration, explains the meaning of the songs and discusses the poets behind them.

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

Concert of kayhan kalhors silent city (shahr-e khamoosh) album in Isfahan Chehel Soton Palace in 2020

A police officer finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a missing man in the rugged mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, in this striking feature debut by Batin Ghobadi.

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.