Bab' Aziz

Tunisia-born, Paris-based artist Nacer Khemir's ravishingly beautiful third feature is a journey film in which an elderly man tells his impetuous granddaughter a series of interlocking fables rooted in Muslim Sufi principles to pass they time as they walk to a distant destination.

Blind Bab' Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou) is en route to a conference of dervishes – an event that occurs every three decades -- in the deep desert, accompanied by his little granddaughter, Ishtar (Maryam Hamid). To pass the time as they travel, Bab' Aziz begins to tell Ishtar the story of a spoiled prince (Kaveh Khodashenas) who vanishes after impulsively following a gazelle into the de...