Sheffield DocFest 2023

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And, Towards Happy Alleys And, Towards Happy Alleys
And, Towards Happy Alleys and Between Revolutions
And, Towards Happy Alleys (Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Sreemoyee Singh)
A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.
UK premiere
Between Revolutions (Între Revoluții) (Country: Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Vlad Petri)
Letters between two former medical students contextualise the revolutions that transformed their respective homelands in Iran and Romania.
UK premiere
How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish (Country: Iran, Canada, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Mania Akbari; Writer: Mania Akbari, Ehsan Khoshbakht; Stars: Mania Akbari)
A hybrid documentary considering pre-Revolutionary films in Iran, before the censorship of the current regime.
UK premiere
My Worst Enemy (Mon pire ennemi) (Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Mehran Tamadon; Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi)
Mehran Tamadon has lived in France for many years. As an experiment, he asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge. Documentary.
UK premiere
Profession: Documentarist (Herfeh: Mostanad) (Country: Iran; Year: 2014; Director: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei)
Seven independent female filmmakers voice their concerns about their political, creative and personal lives in the context of the society they live in.
UK premiere
Where God Is Not (Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Mehran Tamadon)
Three former political prisoners of the Iranian regime re-enact their experiences of interrogation, torture and isolation.
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