THERE IS A GARDEN & BA MAN AZ DARYA BEGOO (TELL ME OF SEAS)

There is a garden
2014, Colour, Canada, Documentaries of the World

Born in Iran, Masoud Raouf has lived in Canada since 1988. Educated at Sheridan College in Ontario, he has taught animation at Concordia University. His films: The Trees That I Remember (2002), Blue Like a Gunshot (2003), Waves at Birth (2005).

Director : Masoud Raouf

Screenwriter : Masoud Raouf, Robin Gorn

Cinematographer : Masoud Raouf

Editor : Arian Aryan

Music : Claude Maheu, Michel Reinhart


Ba Man Az Darya Begoo (Tell me of seas)
2014, Colour, Netherlands. The, Documentaries of the World

The story of a mother and a daughter imprisoned in Iran and a commentary on Khomeini’s 1988 Fatwa which sent thousands of political prisoners to their deaths.


Reza Allamehzadeh was born in 1943 in Sari, Iran and studied film in Tehran. He was a political prisoner in 1973-79, but has lived in the Netherlands since 1983 and has taught cinema in Europe and the U.S. Selected filmography: THE TRAP (1973), A Few Simple Sentences (1986), GUESTS OF HOTEL ASTORIA (1988, shown at MWFF), MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (1997) and IRANIAN TABOO (2011).


Director : Reza Allamehzadeh

Screenwriter : Reza Allamehzadeh

Cinematographer : Marco Nauta, Ahmad Nikazar, Paul Skomal

Editor : Reza Allamehzadeh

Music : Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh