Rooz video googoosh biography

“I felt like I was 14 again. I was no longer a film director — just a girl who was a fan,” begins filmmaker Niloufar Taghizadeh about meeting the subject of her documentary Googoosh: Made of Fire.

Niloufar’s latest cinematic offering is part fan film part socio-political history of the last half-century in Iran.

The film about the quintessential Iranian pop star, Googoosh, juxtaposes images of mid-century Tehran with her exile in the West, concert footage and images of revolution and protest from 1978 until the more recent Women, Life, Freedom movement.

Like her troubled nation, Googoosh is a survivor.

Her story is the story of Iran, and 46-year-old Niloufar Taghizadeh is well-placed to tell it.

Born the year the Revolution began, she is also one of the lost generation of Iranians who came of age knowing only war and oppression.

“I think my film speaks to my generation,”