New 2023 Edition

Afro Iran shows a side of the country, which is unknown even to the locals. It visits a place that is inhabited by the descendants of the traders and the slaves from Africa. The Hormozgan province in the Persian Gulf is a traditional and historical region with a diverse and unexplored population. It is framed with unique landscapes and people with profound personalities. Iranians, who continue the African heritage with their clothing style, their music, their dance and their oral traditions and rituals. The resulting portraits reveal new facets and unfamiliar faces, which are not typical for the common picture of Iran. They show details documenting the centuries-long history of this ethnic minority. A confrontation between the Persian culture and the, for Iran unusual, African consciousness.