Farrokh Ghaffari
Director
Biography
Farrokh Ghaffari (Persian: فرخ غفاری) (born 1921 – died 17 December 2006) was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Iran's New Wave film movement. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran.
Filmography
O.K. Mister
as William Knox D'Arcy 1979
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
as Self 2013
Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
as Self 2016
Night of the Hunchback
1965
Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre
as The head of the Asylum 1973
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
as Lui-même 1977
Days of Farrokh
as Self 2006
The Lantern of Imagination
1976