All Posts By Arvin Ilbeigi
Documentary Film Festivals
This is a list of the most famous documentary film festivals in the world. From festivals dedicated exclusively to this genre of cinema to those that have a section devoted to documentary films. Some dates may vary depending on the policies of the festivals. I will try to keep this list up-to-date and add new…
The Malavan and the Responsibilities of a Province
If we consider football as a social and connected sport to the behavior of the masses, Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club is one of the five important clubs in Iran and the most successful Iranian club in the past season. The importance and success that I claim are compared one-to-one with other clubs in the…
Eleven
In 2012 I made a documentary film about 11 visual artists from 6 country get together in Tehran. They wanted to engage in dialogue and to explore the possibilities of exchanging ideas and knowledge across ethnic, regional and artistic borders.The first artist to arrive is Sarah Hatahet, a young talented artist from Jordan. After her…
Street Vendors and Architecture
The temporary and inexpensive structures built by marginalized and low-income vendors in the cities of Gilan, while sometimes attractive to social documentary filmmakers and artists in this field, are a clear example of visual chaos and pollution in urban architecture. Look at this unstable wooden ceiling covered with plastic (the most commonly used material in…
In Memory of Ahmad Nourizadeh
Some people seem to be born to disrupt the rules of life; those same rules that make life resemble the side stories of old magazines and the visual narratives of faded pictures on tweets, posts, and stories of new people; life in the narrow alleys.Ahmad Nourizadeh, the defenseless boy of Metropol Street, the distinguished man…
Sizdah-Bedar: Opportunity or a Threat?
In Iranian mythology, “Mashi” and “Mashiane” are the first pair of humans who were plants before becoming human, belonging to the earth and the sperm of Kiumars (the first human and the murdered Ahriman). When they transform from plants into human form, they resemble each other in stature and face. Then, on the auspicious day…
What should we do with the prominent abuser?
All of us who have been active in the field of culture and art in Gilan and are now trying to empathize with the victims of harassment, have been aware of the past instances of sexual abuse by some individuals in this field. What has had the most impact on how we deal with this…