“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...