Soleyman Vaseghi

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.

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.