Tree Crown

 

 

Islamic Republic of Iran

30'00'', 2023

DIRECTED BY

PRODUCED BY

SCRIPTWRITER

Nasim Soheili

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Yousef Safaei

EDITED BY

Hojat Heydari

 

Mohammad Wali Gandami is the last miller who knows the techniques of building and repairing of traditional Iranian windmills. At the age of 68, he is still responsible for the maintenance of windmills in the city of Nashtifan.

 


Nasim Soheili is a director from Mashhad, Iran. She has a master’s degree in social communication and has worked as a social journalist for many years. Her family’s background in filmmaking and her own social activity in the field of women’s and ethnic minorities rights inspired her to make documentaries. After graduating from the one-year filmmaking course of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, she started researching and making short documentaries. Besides researching and making documentaries, she is currently teaching at universities and film schools, and is also a social activist.