Arsalan Baraheni

Arsalan Baraheni

Tehran, Iran

Arsalan Baraheni is an exiled Iranian Canadian director, producer, writer, human rights activist and artistic director based in Montreal, Toronto and L.A.

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A Poet is Killed 2020

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.
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Alchemy & Dust 2014

Reza Baraheni is known as one of the greatest living Iranian poets and novelists. This poetic docudrama is shot and narrated by Baraheni's son, who suffered exile with him for the past 20 years and lives as a filmmaker in Toronto, Canada. The film deals with the artistic collaboration of a father and a son, a poet and a filmmaker. The film deals with exile and art, life and death, poetry and camera.
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Frame & Wall 2014

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.