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 ...
“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 ...