Document HRFF: Student Forum - Those Who Said No

The Student Forum returns to Document! In the past two years we have shown films that explore the crisis in Syria and the youth experience in Palestine - using them as a launch point for post-screening discussion. This year we are offering two opportunities to watch and learn with your peers. Following the screening in the Cinema we'll be conducting workshops led by the Glasgow Human Rights Network in the Clubroom.

Those Who Said No (2014, Sweden/Iran)
Dir. Nima Sarvestani

After 25 years of silence, for the first time in history, survivors and relatives of the victims at the hands of the Iranian regime - establish a People’s Court in The Hague. They do this while the accused continue to rule in Iran, holding high positions in the government. Nima Sarvestani's film follows Iraj, a former political prisoner and survivor of torture. He was on death row in Iran's most notorious prison. Tortured and facing execution, he did not expect to survive. Like the thousands who were executed, there were no charges laid against him and he was never taken to court. Today, he and all the other survivors face the world’s indifference. Yet, they refuse to be silenced.

Representatives of Freedom From Torture will be joining Beth Pearson of the Glasgow Human Rights Network for the post-screening discussion in the Clubroom.