Farzad Tohidi

Movies

The Songbird
Editor
A documentary following four women from northern Khorasan, as they tell the story of their lives through their relationship with music, and their tar, a small guitar-like stringed instrument. One of them, who was put in jail to protect her husband, only returned to find that he's remarried, the woman describes what her music meant to her at different points in her life and what playing her tar means to her now. Even though they suffer many social prejudice and segregation on a daily basis the film depicts how music soothes them and they manage to release their pain through music.
Daughter of Farmanfarma
Editor
Maryam Firooz, sister of Nusrat Al-Dawlah Firooz and daughter of Abdolhossein Farmanfarma (grandson of Abbas Mirza, ruler, minister and prime minister of the famous Qajar period and one of the richest people in Iran) has lived a tumultuous life in his private life and social life. And the landings are in his own language at the age of 95.