Jamil Dehlavi

Jamil Dehlavi is an independent filmmaker whose career spans over five decades. After reading law at Oxford, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn but chose instead to pursue filmmaking, later studying at Columbia University in New York. There, he developed a distinctive symbolic style that weaves together the personal, the political, and the mystical. He has written, produced, and directed numerous internationally acclaimed feature films and documentaries, including Towers of Silence, The Blood of Hussain, Born of Fire, Immaculate Conception, Jinnah, Infinite Justice, Godforsaken, and Seven Lucky Gods. His work has been distributed worldwide and has received multiple awards at international film festivals. A measure of his significance is the British Film Institute’s decision to honour him with a retrospective in 2018.