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 ...

The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...