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.

Known For

Night of the Hunchback

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

Self

Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre

The head of the Asylum

The Lantern of Imagination‏

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)

Lui-même

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses

Self

O.K. Mister

William Knox D'Arcy

Days of Farrokh

Self