Author Hamed Sarrafi & Ramin S. Khanjani

Hamed Sarrafi & Ramin S. Khanjani

Hamed Sarrafi is a UK-based cinephile, critic and translator. He has written and translated for Iranian newspapers and magazines for 20 years and more recently has established his podcast, Abadiat Va Yek Rooz (Eternity and a Day), in which he reviews movies and film festivals and also interviews filmmakers and fellow film critics. Sarrafi is particularly interested in interviewing emerging directors on their social and political views. His interviews have been published in Cineaste, Notebook (Mubi) and Cinema Without Borders. Ramin S. Khanjani is an independent film researcher, writer and filmmaker. His writings have appeared in various English and Farsi publications such as Film Monthly, Film International and Offscreen. He has written a monograph on the Iranian auteur filmmaker, Ali Hatami and contributed to The Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 (2017) and Transnational Crime Cinema (2022). In both his filmmaking practice and his writings, he is guided by a preoccupation with the history of cinema and a desire to investigate the question of cinematic form.

A Glistening Snowy Road to The Friend’s House: An Interview with Matthew Rankin about Universal Language

Hamed Sarrafi & Ramin S. Khanjani

January 2025

Interviews

Amidst the London Film Festival’s lineup of films steeped in despair and bleak visions of the future – like swamps pulling their characters deeper into hopelessness – Universal Language stood out as a clever, k...