The Stoning of Soraya (A highly acclaimed movie based on a True Story)
This program starts Promptly at 5:00pm and concludes with a Public Discussion.
This 5th IHR Forum is held in recognition of The UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Nov. 25), The UN International Human Rights Day (Dec.10, 2009) which is the 61st anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 6th month commemoration of June 12th Iranian Uprising (the beginning of the peaceful protests in Iran that were violently confronted by the government), and the last but not the least the 16th of Azar Students’ Day in Iran (Dec. 7, 2009).
MOVIE:
This 2008 highly acclaimed drama movie is adopted from an international bestseller book with the same title which was written by the French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam in 1994 based on a true story. The film is directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and stars Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, as well as James Caviezel and Mozhan Marnò. This powerful movie depicts stoning which is one of the inhumane facets of fear imposed in Iran.
This movie is not yet released on DVD but we are grateful to the MPower Pictures for granting us the opportunity to screen it at this event before its official release in March 2010.
with thanks to MPower Pictures
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