Kaveh Nabatian
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose evocative cinema has brought to life stories on the margins of society, taking place all over the world. His cinematic work ranges from A Crack in Everything, a documentary feature film about Leonard Cohen, to the conceptualization of the experimental anthology feature film The Seven Last Words with seven directors. His debut feature film, Sin La Habana (2020), garnered over twenty nominations and awards at festivals. His most recent film, the award-winning Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones), is a sensorial documentary shot in Haiti. Nabatian also composes music for cinema, dance, various orchestral ensembles, and theater. As a composer and trumpeter, he has toured the world and released several critically acclaimed albums with his group Bell Orchestre, a Juno Award-winning ensemble. Additionally, Kaveh Nabatian has taught cinema at the Cine Institute in Haiti, where he continues to work and develop projects with Haitian filmmakers and writers, as well as in the Algonquin community of Kitigan Zibi.
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The Seven Last Words
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_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
The Seven Last Words
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_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
