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 ...

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 ...

Most film festivals don’t offer the opportunity to become a barefooted time traveler to an ecstatic Sufi ritual, but The National Library of Israel’s recent Docu.Text 5 event, held August 18-22, ...

Official sources at the Religious Endowments Ministry say a recent decision to ban Egypt’s Sufi orders from holding gatherings for the performance of zikr–a ritual devoted to the remembrance of ...

A recent ban on Sufi zikr, or remembrance ceremonies, from the Ministry of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) made headlines recently when several Sufi sects were prevented from observing ceremonies at the ...

Jennifer Tiexiera produced the project created by Sensorium, Superbright and Tomorrow Never Knows in partnership with BoomGen Studios and 1001 Media. Executive producers are Reza Aslan, Mayhad Tousi, ...

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Press Club of India organised an evening dedicated to Sufi music. “Zikr-e-Sufi” brought together a diverse group of people with just one common interest: an ...

BBC's Pop Up team is in Russia telling the stories you've asked for. This week, they went to see an Islamic Sufi prayer ceremony known as Zikr, and found out more about its background in Russia. Do ...

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 ...

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 ...