Forced Confessions
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Directed by | Maziar Bahari |
Screenplay by | Maziar Bahari |
Produced by | Maziar Bahari for Off-Centre Productions |
Cinematography | John Templeton |
Edited by | James Mullett |
Music by | Nainita Desai Malcolm Laws |
Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | England |
Languages | English and Persian |
Forced Confessions (Persian: اعترافات اجباری, Eteraafaat-e Ejbari) is 2012 documentary film by the Persian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari about the forced confessions in Iran.[1]
The film premiered at 25th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2012. The short version of the film was aired by BBC Persian TV simultaneously.
Synopsis
In 2009, filmmaker Maziar Bahari, a guest of honor at IDFA 2007, claimed he was forced to make a false confession. He had supposedly been collaborating with the West and was accused of espionage. As a filmmaker and journalist working for Western broadcasting corporations, he was the perfect scapegoat for the regime. Many intellectuals, writers, philosophers and journalists had preceded Bahari since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The director's own voice-over and interviews with fellow Iranians who have been through the same ordeal guide the viewer through the history of forced confessions in Iran. They are degrading tales of intelligent men who never thought they would have to make false confessions in public, but potentially fatal torture left them with few options. It has now been 30 years since the first false public confession.[2]
References
- ^ Akbarzadeh, Pejman (21 November 2012). "World Premiere of "FORCED CONFESSIONS" by Maziar Bahari in Amsterdam". Iranian.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ IDFA (15 November 2012). "Synopsis". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
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