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Sheffield DocFest · 2023

Sheffield DocFest 2023

Perspectives On Iran

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6 films

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And, Towards Happy Alleys

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.

(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Sreemoyee Singh)

UK premiere

Between Revolutions (Între Revoluții)

Letters between two former medical students contextualise the revolutions that transformed their respective homelands in Iran and Romania.

(Country: Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Vlad Petri)

UK premiere

How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish

A hybrid documentary considering pre-Revolutionary films in Iran, before the censorship of the current regime.

(Country: Iran, Canada, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Mania Akbari; Writer: Mania Akbari, Ehsan Khoshbakht; Stars: Mania Akbari)

UK premiere

My Worst Enemy (Mon pire ennemi)

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.

(Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Mehran Tamadon; Stars: Zar Amir Ebrahimi)

UK premiere

Profession: Documentarist (Herfeh: Mostanad)

Seven independent female filmmakers voice their concerns about their political, creative and personal lives in the context of the society they live in.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2014; Director: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei)

UK premiere

Where God Is Not

Three former political prisoners of the Iranian regime re-enact their experiences of interrogation, torture and isolation.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Mehran Tamadon)