MUSIQUES ET RITES DE PERSE - THE DERVISHES OF NAJJAR (special Nowruz release)

special release of 7 short films to celebrate Persian New Year / Nowruz extract taken from a longer film on the Friday ritual of Najjar, in the mountains of the Kermanshah province of Iran. A Sufi gathering after the Friday prayer, involving more than a hundred men (women are having their own celebration in another room), with a zikr (the ’remembrance’, main part of Sufi gatherings) following a common meal, and lasting around one hour. The Sufi rituals in the provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan are still widely celebrated, while in other parts of Iran they are much more hidden and not open to outsiders those days. entire film to be released later in 2020 IMAGES SOUNDS BY VINCENT MOON PRISCILLA TELMON WITH THE HELP OF SHAHIN PARASTE RECORDED IN NAJJAR, IRAN short version, extract of a longer film, to be released later in 2020 part of a collection of 10 films made in Iran in October 2019 PRODUCED BY PETITES PLANÈTES CC BY-NC-SA more infos on