IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Nahid Persson Sarvestani

      Nahid Persson Sarvestani

      Still: My Stolen Revolution
      Nahid PERSSON SARVESTANI (1960, Iran) is a Swedish-Iranian writer and documentary filmmaker. She is one of Scandinavia’s most respected and well-known documentary filmmakers. She graduated and worked as a microbiologist in Uppsala, and managed a radio station before discovering filmmaking. Her works focus mainly on her country of birth and women and their vulnerability, life force, and ability to survive. She has received great international acclaim for her works and her films have been screened at various international film festivals, including Sundance Film Festival. She is known for Be My Voice (2021), My Stolen Revolution (2013), and Prostitution: Behind the Veil (2004). The latter received an Emmy nomination, the Golden Dragon at the Kraków Film Festival, Best International News Documentary at the TV festival 2005 in Monte Carlo, as well as The Crystal Award by SVT (Swedish public broadcasting television) and the Golden Scarab (Guldbaggen) by the Swedish Film Institute in 2005.

      Filmography

      (selection, all doc) En dörr till en annan värld/A Door To Another World (1994), Dolda tecken/Hidden Signs (1995), Att vara adoptivbarn/To Be Adopted (1996), Under ytan/Below the Surface (1997), Min hemlighet/My Secret (1998), Fem lika - fem olika/Five Equal - Five Different (1999), Jag är inte bara homosexuell/I Am Not Only a Homosexual (2000), Min mamma - en persisk prinsessa/My Mother - A Persian Princess (2000), 17 år av längtan/End of Exile (2000), I livets slutskede/Last Days of Life (2002), Prostitutionen bakom slöjan/Prostitution: Behind the Veil (2004, doc), Åt helvete med det gamla/Fuck the Past (2005), One Day in Iran (2006), Fyra fruar och en man/Four Wives - One Man (2007, doc), Det blå hjärtat/Blue Heart (2008), Fågelburen/Birdcage (2008), Drottningen och jag/The Queen and I (2008, doc), Min stulna revolution/My Stolen Revolution (2013), Anders, jag och hans 23 andra kvinnor/Anders, Me and His 23 Other Women (2018), Be My Voice (2021)

      More info: Wikipedia, Nahid Persson Sarvestani

      Nahid Persson Sarvestani at IFFR