I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America Tanaz Eshaghian & Sara Nodojoumi 2002, 27 min., Color, US From the Iran hostage crisis of '79 to the WTC attacks, images of hostile Iranians and Middle Easterners have been well-ingrained in the American psyche, but no informed images come to mind representi...
Najeeb: A Persian Girl in America Tanaz Eshaghian 2000, 26 min., Color, US After the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, after which 80,000 Persian Jews fled the country. Since then, thousands of young women have grown up in Iranian homes in the United States, where they...
An Opera of the World Manthia Diawara 2018, 70 min., Color Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, in 2007, serves as a mi...
Secondhand (Pepe) Hanna Rose Shell & Vanessa Bertozzi 2007, 24 min., Color, United States/Haiti/Canada In this documentary about used clothing, the historical memoir of a Jewish immigrant rag picker intertwines with the present-day story of 'pepe' — secondhand clothing that flows from North America to ...
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