Recorded in secret in Iran at the height of the women-led uprising, this animated short documentary follows a medical resident who risks her life to protect a fellow doctor from arrest by the country’s secret police.
This short will screen along with the short, Facing the Storm: The Indigenous Response to Climate Change – Mazaska Talks, preceding the documentary Draw Me Egypt: Doaa El-Adl, a Stroke of Freedom. Together, these three films showcase voices for change around the world.
Iran
2023
In English and Persian with English subtitles
Credits & Director
Producer
Daniel Lombroso, Andy Sarjahani
Andy Sarjahani
Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, raised outside the Arkansas Ozarks. His work explores human connection to place and its impact on world view. He served as the verite cinematographer for the Academy Award-nominated The Barber of Little Rock (2024) and directed The Smallest Power (2024). His debut feature, Iranian Hillbilly (2022), received the Southern Documentary Fund 2022 grant, won the New Orleans Film Festival 2022 South Pitch, and is currently in production. Sarjahani is a 2024 Gotham/HBO Documentary Films Development Fellow.