Films of Iran and Iraq: a Film of a Coming War, a Film of a Current War………
“Geramifard, 32, went ahead anyway and travelled to his native country in 2008 to make Iran: Voices of the Unheard. It tells the story of three secular Iranians from very different backgrounds and portrays a country far from western clichés of angry fundamentalists. The film is being shown in New York as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which is also featuring The Unreturned, about Iraqi refugees displaced by war to Jordan and Syria, made by the filmmaker Nathan Fisher, 28. Both Geramifard and Fisher were in New York to promote their films in the hope of reaching a wider US audience………. When Geramifard started researching his film three years ago, his biggest challenge was finding Iranians willing to speak on film. He found a teacher who used to be a left-wing firebrand, a young intellectual and poet in Tehran, and a Ghashghai family who live a precarious life of sheep-herding. Iranian authorities have forced many members of the tribe away from their traditional nomadic life. The film was made without any official permission, and he was not seeking mass distribution for it because he fears for the safety of those he interviewed. “I do want people to see the film but safety has to come first and my duty has to be to the people who helped me make it,” said Geramifard, who did not expect to be able to return to Iran for some time. Fisher filmed in Jordan and Syria in 2008 and followed five Iraqis of different religions and backgrounds as they sought to make a new life in exile………..”
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