Farrokh Ghaffari

Farrokh Ghaffari was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Irans New Wave film movement. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and noncommercial films in Iran.

Ghaffari was born in Tehran, but was educated in Belgium and at the University of Grenoble in France.

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