Amin

Amin

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 23, 2010

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Documentary, Drama, Music

Original Title

Amin

Production Companies

Cinemashena

Director

Shahin Parhami

Description

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.