On Thursday, June 5, SFFP Board President Rob Byrne will be joined by Ehsan Khoshbakht to discuss Lewis Milestone’s incredible body of work, including—of course—The Garden of Eden, which SFFP restored!
Ehsan Khoshbakht is a film curator, filmmaker, and writer. He serves as the co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna and curates the retrospective section of the 2025 Locarno Film Festival. Most recently, he programmed a major season of Iranian pre-revolutionary films for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and a first-time retrospective dedicated to director Anatole Litvak at Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. His latest film, Celluloid Underground, premiered at the London Film Festival and was nominated for the John Grierson Award for Best Documentary. Ehsan’s newly edited volume, The Lady with the Torch: Columbia Pictures, 1929–1959, was published in August 2024 by Les Éditions de l’Œil in Paris, in conjunction with a retrospective of the same name that he curated for Locarno, now touring in different countries. Ehsan is also the curator of Lewis Milestone: Of Wars and Men, to be held at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025.
This event is free and open to everyone. Simply register below to attend.
