Iran: Voices of Uprising
From the outset of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian state built its power on coercion: executions, ideological policing, the crushing of dissent, and violence as a governing tool. Over time, this hardened into a lasting system of institutional repression. What is unfolding today is not a rupture, but the latest and most extreme expression of that legacy.
Niloofar Azimian
Iranian activist and filmmaker
Arezoo Mojaverian
Iranian activist
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Julien Abiramia
Journalist, Courrier International
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Shirin Heidari
Senior researcher at the Gender Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute
The discussion is interpreted in English and French
Where God Is Not
Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three, through their actions and with their bodies as proof, exemplify the essence of what it means to resist and to be defeated. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day rekindle his conscience? Where God Is Not is a film of testimonies from those who have been scarred by the Iranian regime. It seeks to understand the workings of the totalitarian system in its most repressive aspects, i.e. imprisonment and torture, using the huis-clos and reconstitution as cinematographic formats.
l’atelier documentaire
Luc Forveille
Marc Parazon
Laurent Malan
