Dervish Machine

Hand-developed meditations on being and movement, as inspired by Gysin's Dreammachine, Sufi mysticism, and early cinema. A knowledge of the fragility of existence mirrors the tenuousness of the material. The film itself

Dervish

A nude woman whirled continuously till exhausted. The only sounds were the motion of her feet, the rustle and flap of drapery, and the increasingly labored rhythm of her breathing. Images were superimposed and dramatic p

Last Dervish

The film tells the story of the life and work of the great Azerbaijani artist Sattar Bahlulzadeh. It depicts three periods of his life - childhood, youth, and old age.

Dervish 2

A film by Amy Greenfield.

The Somali Dervish

Centering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah") is an epic on the grandest scale. The film follows Hassan's life from his roots as a humble mullah to a

The Dervish and Death

Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Througho

The Dervish Boys

Unable to hold down a job for long, two unlucky and perpetually broke friends overhear their boss' plans to give away in marriage his sister, who is secretly in love with his poor employee. Can the clumsy duo avert this

The Dream of the Dervish

A documentary about the dervishes in the Rufai Tekke, in the Skopje neighborhood of Gazi Baba. Through interviews, we learn about the history of the Tekke, built in 1818. The philosophy of life and tradition of the Rufai

The Dervish's Diary

The events took place in the early 19th century on the eve of the fall of the Azerbaijani khanates. The events coincided with the period of the division of Azerbaijan into two.

Dervish: Live at Johnny Fox's

In a brilliant move, the makers of this dynamic video set up a camera at Johnny Fox's Pub in Dublin, Ireland, to capture the merry members of Dervish in their element. The result is an unforgettable evening of traditiona

Dervishes

Dervisi: This 1955 documentary reveals the strange practices of one of the most ancient Muslim denominations and rites that aim to achieve mystical ecstasy.

Darvish' e Felezat

Dervishes of Kurdistan

The Dervishes are a group of Kurds, a people who have no homeland, who are being allowed to live in Iran.

The Four Dervishes

Zanar, who is about to be sold in the city marketplace by an elderly slave trader, gives her ring to Hamed and asks him to purchase her. Hamed does so, setting in motion a series of adventures and events that change both

A Few Moments with Qaderi Dervishes

Using an invasive cinéma verité camera, the extraordinary acts of faith of dervishes under trance conditions in Iranian Kurdistan are documented.

Dhafer Youssef & Hüsnü Şenlendirici: "Dance of the invisible dervishes" Live at 19º Istambul Jazz Festival