The read
It runs a compact 53m.
Synopsis
In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.
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Key crew
- Majed NeisiDirector
Cast
- Awin MostafazadehSelf
- Mahsa AminiSelf (archive footage)
- Shiva NazarahariSelf
- Ali KhameneiSelf (archive footage)
- Ruhollah KhomeiniSelf (archive footage)
- Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviSelf (archive footage)
- Zar Amir EbrahimiSelf
- Nika ShakaramiSelf (archive footage)
- Nasrin ShakaramiSelf
- Sarina EsmailzadehSelf (archive footage)
- Mohsen ShekariSelf (archive footage)
- Ramita NavaiSelf - Narrator (voice)
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protestiranfeminist activism