Friday, December 6th 2013

Cooperation STOP THE BOMB and "this human world"

Screening of documentary "My Stolen Revolution"

Top Kino
Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Vienna

Also this year the coalition STOP THE BOMB was invited to be a cooperation partner of the renowned human rights film festival "this human world", which is going to take place 5 - 12 December 2013 in Vienna.

Together we will be hosting the screening of the documentary "My Stolen Revolution" by Nahid Persson Sarvestani (Sweden 2013). For ticket information klick here.

After the screening the exiled-Iranian activist and filmmaker Fathiyeh Naghibzadeh and Stephan Grigat, Scientific Director of STOP THE BOMB, will be discussing the current situation in Iran.
Chair: Helmar Dumbs (DIE PRESSE)
Free admission to the discussion from 7:15pm.

Synopsis:
This is supposed to be a 'personal' documentary, but a more powerful word is needed because the filmmaker tells her highly personal story with such dedication.
Nahid Sarvestani was a young left-wing student when the Iranian revolution broke out in 1979. The winners are well-known, and the left-wing political movement was among the losers. Many of her fellow students vanished into jail and never came out again. Her brother met his end that way too. Nahid fled to Sweden, was given Swedish nationality and became an internationally renowned documentary maker.
Thirty years after the revolution, protest reawakened in Iran. The motivation: a presidential election. Old, suppressed memories came back to life for Nahid. She decided to make a film about her days as a student activist in Iran and looked up the few of her comrades who survived. As you can imagine, the reunion was very emotional.