Iran
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Captured by a mobile phone
For Neda is the tragic story of 29-year-old Neda Agha Soltan whose death, during a street protest against the 2009 elections in Iran, was recorded on a mobile phone and shared via the Internet. This footage went viral, igniting national and international outrage.
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POV IRAN: Threatened from within
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard points to fresh dissent within oppressive regime. A television film gives us first-hand testimony from recent defectors.
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Once a democratic country
DOX met the Iranian artist and now filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, who won the prize for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature film Women Without Men combines both the oppression of women in Iran and the historical moment when Iran turned away from being a democracy in 1953. These insights are still alarmingly…
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Risking life to cross the Iran-Iraq border
After the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, crossing the border between the two countries became possible again
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Searching for a black-haired girl
Siyamo is another excellent example of how fuzzy the distinction between fiction and documentary is for so many Iranian filmmakers.
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A country tragically divided in several ways
“Imagine a bird in a cage. He has forgotten to fly. When he leaves the cage to learn, he either rebels or becomes a misanthropist, a loner, or he forgets to fly at all,” says a young Iranian to Thierry Michel’s camera.
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DOCUMENTARY IRANIAN STYLE
Women and the variety of ethnic communities are two of the most frequent themes dealt with in Iranian documentaries where the tradition for poetry overshadows journalism.