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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
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“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
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