Synopsis

As a student, the director managed to flee revolutionary Iran. Many who stayed behind did not survive.

When there are renewed protests in Teheran 30 years later, she goes looking for a couple of other survivors who fled. An emotional, very personal documentary.

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.

Cast: Soudabeh Ardavan, Parvaneh Aref, Monireh Baradaran, Azar Al Kanaan, Nazli Partovi, Nahid Persson