More than two decades after making his highly acclaimed film, The Garden of Stones, the director, Parviz Kimiavi once more turns his camera to the deaf and mute shepherd and his arcane collection. Darvish Khan is now an aged man who still takes after the garden of Stones set up over so many years. The film charts the life of Darvish Khan with his son and daughter-in-law and the...
An androgynous prostitute dressed only in red makes her way to work through a city devastated by a war. Based on six paintings by German Expressionist artist Otto Dix, "To Beauty" offers a glimpse into the lives of post-Iraq War veterans, prostitutes, and homeless in a whimsically colorful world.