Here, with the cooperation of Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydun Rahnema, he organized the First film Festival, screening British movies in 1950 and French films in 1951. The Center also became a favorite meeting place for intellectuals interested in foreign cinema. During the same time, Ghaffary started writing serious film criticism in the leftist press under the pen name M. Mobarak and also published his first articles on the history of cinema in Positif and Archives du Cinéma, two French magazines devoted to surrealist films and avant-garde cinema.
1975, Ghaffary produced Zanburak (103 minutes), a movie inspired by folk tales and reputed to be the first Iranian musical movie. It relates the story of a man in charge of the zanburak in the events following the disastrous defeat of the army he served. The term zanburak (the running cannon), sometimes referred to as the falconet, is the name of a small cannon mounted on a camel, usually used in Central Asia and Middle East; it was used from the Safavid period to the end of the 19th century.
