The Songbird
52 mins
A documentary following four women from northern Khorasan, as they tell the story of their lives through their relationship with music, and their tar, a small guitar-like stringed instrument. One of them, who was put in jail to protect her husband, only returned to find that he's remarried, the woman describes what her music meant to her at different points in her life and what playing her tar means to her now. Even though they suffer many social prejudice and segregation on a daily basis the film depicts how music soothes them and they manage to release their pain through music.
Behroz Faraji
Cinematography
Masoud Emami
Cinematography
mohammad hassan damanzan
Writer
mohammad hassan damanzan
Director
Farzad Tohidi
Editor
mohammad hassan damanzan
Researcher
mohammad hassan damanzan
Producer
Asghar Abgoon
Sound