“Circle of Light” director Amir Aziz was born in Iran the week the Iran-Iraq War began 1980 and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 3 years old. He remembers the land of his ancestors portrayed through images of conflict and political turmoil. Even as a child, he understood that human connection wasn’t built through wartime policies, negotiated treaties or diplomatic embassies but in the way cultures have always found common ground, through art. Informed by that experience…