Panahi has made powerful films that show everyday life in Iran even as he has faced travel bans and other restrictions.
Yadegar is thrilled that her film about a student coping with financial challenges and legal restrictions in Canada will open GEMFest.
Authoritarian regimes rely on patriarchal structures to consolidate their power. In Iran, this partnership serves to control women’s bodies.
Sepideh Yadegar’s feature film revolves around Sahar, an international student from Iran who suffers consequences from attending a protest.
Salehi, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime, was arrested after singing about widespread corruption in his country.
Aram (Sarvin Zabetian) is one of the characters interrogated in this 2023 film co-directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami.
In the 1960s, Ghotbzadeh was a student and NDP activist in Nelson, B.C. A decade later, he was helping Ayotollah Khomeini seize power in Iran.
Nass, artistic and executive director of the frank theatre company, brings a breadth of experiences to this play about a Jamaican family.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee chair said that Mohammadi has been arrested 13 times and sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
Suddenly Slaughter is an adaptation of theatrical piece that Khakpour and brother Arash presented at the Push festival in 2019.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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