Director Gabo Arora has spent the past few years promoting virtual reality as the ideal medium for evoking empathy. He spearheaded the UN's VR app, which featured two of his films, Clouds Over Sidra ...

Thurs 30, 9.30pm: Sheikh Mahmoud El-Tohamy. Fri 31, 9.30pm: Bahgaga band. Sat 1 April, 9.30pm: Al-Nour Wa Amal Orchestra. Sun 2, 9.30pm: Oshaq Al-Nagham troupe, led by artist Mohamed Abdel-Sattar. Wed ...

Dogwoof has acquired rights to Zikr: A Sufi Revival, a multiplayer, virtual reality documentary that premiered at the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The deal, its first of its kind for a VR docu ...

As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and ...

The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

A few years ago I was watching as an old blind singer carefully measured the distance from his mouth to the microphone with his hand. He paused for a moment, and then began to sing. And what a song it ...

Kashmir's Sufi Music Lovers Are Sticking With the Audio Cassette SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine ...

Past Sundance documentary breakouts "Blackfish," "O.J.: Made in America," and "Weiner" are all part of Dogwoof's catalogue. In a deal brokered yesterday — the final day of the 34th annual Sundance ...

The South Coast Interfaith Council holds its 29th annual Festival of Music Benefit Concert on Sunday, Nov. 4 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Bay Shore Community Church. Participating in the concert are the ...

Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali’s autobiography reminisces about his childhood and the journey of his films, and reveals his enduring love for poetry and devotion to Sufism Learning is an eternal ...