It happens to everyone as they reach a crossroads: deciding whether they will embrace the traditions preserved for them through their family, or seek personal freedom on a new, unfamiliar path. Most ...

“In a city so old, they call it ancient,” seven-year-old Rose’s grandfather, Baba joon, is an expert rug weaver, working mornings in a large factory and afternoons on his home loom: “Baba joon knots ...

Winner of the 2015 Ophir Award (Israel’s Academy Awards) for best picture, Baba Joon tells the story of a traditional Iranian family living on a turkey farm in southern Israel. Almost entirely in ...

From sitting in her Baba’s Merc after school, prayer beads dangling and Julio Iglesias playing too loud on the radio, to Iranian breads and pickles in a Cardiff flat smelling of rose water, a ...