Gémeaux Award 2002 – Best Documentary
Vancouver International Film Festival 2002
Global Visions Film Festival 2002 (Edmonton)

Quebec – Canada, 2002,
Digital Video, Color,
72 / 52 min.

Researched, Written and Directed by: Jean-Daniel Lafond
Co-Researcher:
Fred A. Reed
Photography: Alberto Feio
Sound Recording: Jean-Denis Daoust
Editing: Babalou Hamelin
Music: Ahmad Bani-Jamali
Massoud Golriz
Produced by: Nathalie Barton





“A precious document”
André Lavoie - Le Devoir

“(A) very beautiful documentary”
Louise Blanchard - Le Journal de Montréal

“I first traveled to Iran with Amir, without ever leaving Montreal. Until the day when a new wind of hope sprang up across Tehran. After 18 years in exile, Amir had decided to return home. And I, to make a film. What seemed at first like a simple story quickly turned complex. In a country where the dead and martyred are more alive than the living, where the past is more present than the present, and where the invisible overwhelms the visible, everything could happen. Women fighting for their rights, a younger generation seething with frustration, democrats locked in political combat... all embody a thirst for freedom and a hunger for life which the conservative Mollahs in power can no longer contain. Today, in Iran, the failure of the revolution has deepened the cleft between an obscurantist Islam terrified by fear of the wave and an Islam open to the world, prepared to plunge into the wave of modernity that sets words and bodies free...”

Jean-Daniel Lafond