Celebrating Iranian Resistance

An evening of resistance from Iran, featuring film screening of Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces, live Q&A with Malu Halasa and Professor Shohini Chaudhuri and Toomaj Salehi’s music.

On 16 September 2022 the world was shocked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Her murder was a reminder of the brutal side of Iran, as was the crushing of dissent that followed. Despite the crackdown people did and still do resist, taking great personal risks in their quest to improve the rights landscape of Iran. Index on Censorship celebrates these dissidents and so, as we remember Amini, we want to spotlight them too.

With that in mind please join Index on Censorship for a night of Iranian culture and protest.

Film Screening + Q&A
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi made his critically acclaimed and award-winning 3 Faces (2018) while being banned from filmmaking for 20 years and forbidden from leaving Iran. The film explores themes of womanhood and patriarchal rural Iran through the form of road trip adventure. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Shohini Chaudhuri and writer and editor Malu Halasa (Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran, Saqi 2023) about cinema and censorship in Iran, plus a wider exploration of how cinema is used to control the global narrative.

#FreeToomaj
Join Index to stand in solidarity with Iranian musician Toomaj Salehi, as we listen to his powerful music campaigning for women’s rights and justice in Iran. Musician and creative practitioner, Roshi Nasehi, will read some of Toomaj’s lyrics as an expression of solidarity.

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