Invitation to the screening of the Film -- IRANIAN TABOO
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Office of Public Affairs of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of India
in collaboration with
India International Centre
invites you to the screening of the Film
IRANIAN TABOO
Date: Monday, 1st April 2013
Place: C.D Deshmukh Auditorium of India International Centre
Time: 18.30 p.m.
Duration: 75 minutes
About the Film: Iranian Taboo is a 2011 documentary film about the Bahá’í community in and outside of Iran by Iranian born Dutch filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh. The documentary tells the story of an Iranian Bahá’í woman, Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all of their belongings and leave their homeland, to take refuge in the West.
Iranian Taboo takes the viewer across continents from Turkey to Israel, and from the U.S. to Iran giving a unique insight into the systematic persecution of Bahá’ís of Iran. The film includes never seen before interviews with some of the most respected Iranian scholars, authors and politicians, speaking about the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran.
Mr. Allamehzadeh is mostly famous of his films about refugees, such as The Guests of Hotel Astoria (1988), and the documentary Holy Crime (1994), which is about the murder of opposition figures in Europe by the Islamic regime in Iran.
Banned from entering his homeland, Mr. Allamehzadeh had to rely upon the aid of friends to explore this century old taboo. "In spite of the fact that I'm banned from entering my homeland, I managed to film deep inside Iran with the help of devoted friends who risked their lives to film the footage that I needed", says Mr. Allamehzadeh, who is not a Bahá’í himself. "I have made several challenging documentaries during my long career as a filmmaker – but none of them was as difficult to make as the Iranian Taboo.”
Mr. Allamehzadeh considers the Iranian Taboo as his most personal documentary.