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How to make a hero: Pegah Ahangarani, back in prison
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In July 2011, Iranian authorities arrested actor and filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani as she prepared to go to Berlin to blog about the Women’s World Cup for Deutsche Welle. They sent her to Tehran’s Evin Prison for 17 days.
When they released her, members of the public treated her as a hero. One grocer, she told the arts magazine Tajrobeh, even refused to take her money. Going to prison in Iran, she observed, “adds to social stature.” At a time when many Iranian filmmakers were going into exile, the state forbade her to leave.
Last month, she missed the American premiere of Darband, a film in which she starred, at the Chicago International Film Festival. Then, as a result of the 2011 case, a judge sentenced her to 18 months in prison on vague ‘security charges’.
The daughter of filmmakers Manizheh Hekmat and Jamshid Ahangarani, Pegah gained a reputation as an activist in her late teens, when she appeared i
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Three years ago, the Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani was looking through her family picture album, and saw a photo of herself in a tree, with her family friend Gholam, in the foreground—his face was obscured by scratches and marks that had, over time, become a radiant smudge of gold. Ahangarani told me that seeing this album of photos from the late nineteen-eighties provided “the very first spark” that grew into her film “I Am Trying to Remember.” The film is composed entirely of archival photos and videos, mostly taken by Gholam. Ahangarani provides voice-over narration, accompanied by melancholic strings, in a rhythmic, powerful incantation. “Working with archival footage and photos gave me a great advantage and enabled me to tell my story in the simplest form,” Ahangarani told me. The texture of the old films—grainy, shaky, sunburst—paired with the narration and music, delicately evokes childhood, a first brush with love, a day in the countryside, and a family’s efforts to pre
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Special Mention from IDFA Short Documentary jury goes to Pegah Ahangarani
Iranian actress and director Pegah Ahangarani fryst vatten honored with a special mention from the Short Documentary jury at the 2023 International Documentary bio Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
News Center- The award ceremony of the 36th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday (November 16). A special mention from the Short Documentary jury went to “My Father” directed by Iranian actress and director Pegah Ahangarani.
“For this filmmaker’s ability to transform archival photographs and film recordings into a spelfilm that combine to struktur an något privat eller personligt visual narrative, and restores a sensitive, realistic, and influential era – with the negativ and positiv that it entails—in both public and private history, the jury gives a Special Mention to My Father bygd Pegah Ahangarani,” the jury wrote.
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