Directed by L’Or Iman Puymartin • 2019 • Lebanon
This riveting documentary offers a window onto the life and work of the iconic artist, Huguette Caland. Earlier in her life, Caland lived in Lebanon where she married and raised three children, while studying Fine Arts at the American University in Beirut. With the passing of her father when she was 33 years old, Caland had an epiphany, leaving everything behind and moving to Paris to pursue her career as an artist. With a bold and experimental spirit, she pushed the formal boundaries of art to reflect a feminist impulse. A prodigious artist, she became recognized for drawings, paintings, and sculptures that embody a joyful, exuberant, and erotic sensibility. In 1970, Caland bridged the boundaries between fashion and art by designing a line of kaftans for the renowned couturier Pierre Cardin. She moved to Los Angeles in 1987, where she built her dream artist studio. Abiding by Middle Eastern traditions of hospitality, her home was always open to visitors from all over the world. Her art-filled home became a salon for LA’s creative community. Caland remained in California until 2013, when she returned to Beirut to bid farewell to her dying husband.
میخواهم شاه باشم
Directed by Mehdi Ganji • 2015 • Iran
Abbas has a dream: a dream that one day, he will be king of a tribe that will be revered by people the world over. The trouble is, he’s got a pretty busy day job. After two German tourists stumbled into his hut in nomadic Iran and left havin...
من اکبر اعتماد اتم میشکنم
Directed by Vahid Hosseini • 2013 • Iran
Akbar Etemad, born and raised in Hamadan, is the founder of the Iranian Organization of Atomic Energy and the first director of Bu-Ali-Sina University of Hamadan. He is known as the father of the nuclear science in Iran. This do...
من فقط شاعرم، جناب سروان!
Directed by Nasser Saffarian • 2016 • Iran
An intimist documentary on Iranian songwriter and poet Yaghma Golrouee. Alternating performance footage, poetic digressions and interviews with the poet, the film explores Iranian music and songwriting through the years, chiefly...
