Tunisian-born, Paris-based Nacer Khemir knows how to embrace dichotomies. A poet and sculptor immersed in French art and literary circles, he’s also a tenacious filmmaker who has taken two decades to ...

A bewitched prince, a besotted singer, a man haunted by the life he lived in a dream and another seeking vengeance for his twin's killer: Elderly Bab'Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou) tells his granddaughter ...

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“Bab’Aziz” is a “journey film”: the title character (Parviz Shahinkhou) is an elderly, blind dervish pilgrim crossing the desert with his precocious granddaughter Ishtar (Maryam Hamid) in search of an ...

Originally produced in Tunisia and Iran in 2005; released as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: "Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy" featurette (c2008, 32 min.); trailer (2 min.); photo gallery ...

Director Nacer Khemir's Bab'Aziz is a fable not about a (conceptually more Westernized) search for meaning, but a quest to have beauty and love revealed, in the sense that they represent spiritual ...

Don't wait for the DVD, because the breathtaking desert landscapes that dominate Nacer Khemir's beautiful, elliptical Middle East drama deserve the big screen. The swirling story-within-a-story ...