Arsalan Baraheni

Directing

Arsalan Baraheni

Tehran, Iran

Arsalan Baraheni is an exiled Iranian Canadian director, producer, writer, human rights activist and artistic director based in Montreal, Toronto and L.A.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Light & Sound poster
NR

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music. The docudrama is a poetic, musical film about exile, mysticism and traditional music.

Light & Sound

2014

Light & Sound poster
NR

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music. The docudrama is a poetic, musical film about exile, mysticism and traditional music.

Light & Sound

2014

Light & Sound poster
NR

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music. The docudrama is a poetic, musical film about exile, mysticism and traditional music.

Light & Sound

2014

Frame & Wall poster
NR

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.

Frame & Wall

2014

Frame & Wall poster
NR

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.

Frame & Wall

2014

Frame & Wall poster
NR

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.

Frame & Wall

2014

A Poet is Killed poster
NR

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.

A Poet is Killed

2020

A Poet is Killed poster
NR

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.

A Poet is Killed

2020

A Poet is Killed poster
NR

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.

A Poet is Killed

2020

Exilic Trilogy poster
NR

Exilic Trilogy features three half hour films called Light and Sound, Frame and Wall, and Alchemy and Dust. The film is a poetic, mystical, biographical and musical arthouse trilogy with political, social, psychological, and philosophical manifestations about three influential and legendary Iranian artists who were forced into exile after the Iranian revolution and currently live in Toronto, Canada.

Exilic Trilogy

2015

Exilic Trilogy poster
NR

Exilic Trilogy features three half hour films called Light and Sound, Frame and Wall, and Alchemy and Dust. The film is a poetic, mystical, biographical and musical arthouse trilogy with political, social, psychological, and philosophical manifestations about three influential and legendary Iranian artists who were forced into exile after the Iranian revolution and currently live in Toronto, Canada.

Exilic Trilogy

2015

Exilic Trilogy poster
NR

Exilic Trilogy features three half hour films called Light and Sound, Frame and Wall, and Alchemy and Dust. The film is a poetic, mystical, biographical and musical arthouse trilogy with political, social, psychological, and philosophical manifestations about three influential and legendary Iranian artists who were forced into exile after the Iranian revolution and currently live in Toronto, Canada.

Exilic Trilogy

2015

Alchemy & Dust poster
NR

Reza Baraheni is known as one of the greatest living Iranian poets and novelists. This poetic docudrama is shot and narrated by Baraheni's son, who suffered exile with him for the past 20 years and lives as a filmmaker in Toronto, Canada. The film deals with the artistic collaboration of a father and a son, a poet and a filmmaker. The film deals with exile and art, life and death, poetry and camera.

Alchemy & Dust

2014

Alchemy & Dust poster
NR

Reza Baraheni is known as one of the greatest living Iranian poets and novelists. This poetic docudrama is shot and narrated by Baraheni's son, who suffered exile with him for the past 20 years and lives as a filmmaker in Toronto, Canada. The film deals with the artistic collaboration of a father and a son, a poet and a filmmaker. The film deals with exile and art, life and death, poetry and camera.

Alchemy & Dust

2014

Alchemy & Dust poster
NR

Reza Baraheni is known as one of the greatest living Iranian poets and novelists. This poetic docudrama is shot and narrated by Baraheni's son, who suffered exile with him for the past 20 years and lives as a filmmaker in Toronto, Canada. The film deals with the artistic collaboration of a father and a son, a poet and a filmmaker. The film deals with exile and art, life and death, poetry and camera.

Alchemy & Dust

2014