Iran's faces of anger: An inside look at the lives of Iranians who say no

A little over two years ago, on September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish student, was beaten to death by the Iranian morality police over a few strands of hair escaping from her veil. This was seen as one injustice too many by the Iranian people, who began to rise up to the cries of "Woman, Life, Freedom". The crackdown was brutal and the highly anticipated revolution did not take place, but the fire of anger continued to smoulder under the ashes. This documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at Iran's unprecedented popular uprising. A film by Shooresh Afkari and Virginie Plaut.

A few weeks after the death of the young Kurdish student Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Iranian morality police, we were contacted by Iranian filmmaker Shooresh Afkari. He wanted to "fight in his own way, by doing what he knows best: filming and showing the history that’s being written before his eyes". He sent us the footage he filmed in Iran, where cameras are not welcome, and we then edited the film in France. Our documentary is the diary of this underground film shoot.

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