Ebrahim Golestan was married to his cousin, Fakhri Taghavi Shirazi; their son was photojournalist
Kaveh Golestan and their daughter was
Lili Golestan, translator and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in
Tehran, Iran. A grandson,
Mani Haghighi, is also a
film director. His other grandson,
Mehrak, is a rapper. Golestan was a member of the
Tudeh Party of Iran, but broke away from the party in January 1948. After
Forough Farrokhzad's death, Golestân was protective of her privacy and memory. For example, in response to the publication of a biographical/critical study by
Michael Craig Hillmann called
A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry (1987), he published a lengthy attack against Hillmann in a Tehran literary magazine, to which Hillmann responded at length in an article, part of which was also published in the same Tehran literary magazine. In 2005, Golestan's long conversation with
Parviz Jahed was published in Iran under the title
Writing with a Camera (
Neveshtan ba Doorbin). In February 2017, 50 years after Farrokhzad's death, the 94-year-old Golestan broke his silence about his relationship with Forough, speaking to
Saeed Kamali Dehghan of
The Guardian. Golestan said: "I rue all the years she isn't here, of course, that's obvious. We were very close, but I can't measure how much I had feelings for her. How can I? In kilos? In metres?" Golestan participated in the 2022 documentary
See You Friday, Robinson. Director
Mitra Farahani initiated an email exchange between Golestan and French filmmaker
Jean-Luc Godard, with emailed text letters from Golestan and "videos, images, and aphorism" responses from Godard. Golestan
turned 100 in October 2022, and died in Sussex on 22 August 2023. == Works ==