Ebrahim Golestan: Filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century

Golestan – who had been out of the public eye for nearly thirty-five years – agreed to fly to the US and appear in front of an audience. The program was titled Golestan, the Lion of Iranian cinema.Except for a couple of bootlegged videos of his films and a transfer of his short A Fire (Yek Atash, 1958-1961) included on a DVD released by the French film journal Cinéma, Golestan’s films are not accessible to the public.