Six artists who swapped home for art—was it worth it?
Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestAbbas was exiled from the "Islamic republic" after publishing a book of photographs in 1980 that he argued illustrates the 'confiscation' of the Iranian revolution by fanatical religious forces. Now the renowned photojournalist photographs Islam around the world, showing how its resurgence in places like West Africa is fired by the events in Iran.
Direction
Intimate access to lives most documentaries sanitize.
Writing
Narrative lets subjects speak, never exploits pain.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered during peak Cold War diaspora discourse, when 'exile' meant political, not Instagram aesthetic.
Two featured subjects later denounced the film for 'flattening' their complex identities into victim narratives.
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