Three Days to Liberation

Artist Statment:

Parvaneh Forouhar and her husband Dariush were murdered in their home in Tehran in November 1998. Their murder was part of the Iranian regime’s effort to eliminate opposition figures and intellectuals inside and outside of Iran, which later became known as “chain murders”. Eternal Flame is a documentary about the life, work, and tragic murder of the late Parvaneh Forouhar (Eskandari), a leading campaigner for democracy and human rights in Iran. In this documentary, we will tell her story by interviewing her family (Parastou Forouhar, Fataneh Eskandari), friends, (Nasrin Sotoudeh, Abdolkarim Lahiji, etc.), and coworkers and researching her articles, poems, archives, and documents.

Parvaneh Forouhar was one of the most famous women who resisted violence and  systematic oppression in the Islamic Republic. Today a greater number of Iranian women are bravely resisting the Islamic Republic’s oppressive rule in Iran, and the life and murder of Parvaneh Forouhar is an important part of the history of the movement that we are witnessing today.

In English

80 Min.

At the end, artist talk with Parastou Forouhar and Maryam Palizban (in German)

Director: Sepehr Atefi

With: Parastou Forouhar

Production: Aasoo, Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation

This event is part of the festival „Three Days to Liberation“, curated by Maryam Palizban and Constanza Macras | DorkyPark.

With the support of the “Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt”.