Having trained both in Arabic and Persian musics after earlier studying composition and performance of jazz and experimental music, Kamran Rastegar now directs the greater part of his musical interests to to composition of soundtracks for cinema works. In addition to scoring several short films, he has composed the soundtracks to the following feature length works: Salt of This Sea, (dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2009), Until When (co-composer, with Zafer Tawil; dir. Dahna AbouRahme, 2001), Hopefully for the Best (Raed al-Helou, 2004), and Whose Children Are These (dir. Theresa Thanjan, 2005). A CD of his compositions, Chehrenama, has been released by Hermes Records.