Follow an exiled Iranian filmmaker whose brother was executed by the Ayatollah regime as she confronts her past.
Iran's "Green" protests in 2009 awakened filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani's memories of the time when she fled Iran as a student, after the Ayatollah regime started arresting opponents. Many of her friends were imprisoned and tortured and her brother Rostam was executed.
Now living in Sweden, but haunted by feelings of guilt and memories of her comrades, she begins a quest to track down surviving friends living in exile.
She manages to find five women and find out more about their experiences and her brother's final days before execution.
Shifting between past and present, it is a deeply moving film about people standing up to a brutal regime and finding strength together.
FILMMAKER'S VIEW
By Nahid Persson
I have, on several occasions, portrayed my former home country of Iran. Through these stories, I have gained understanding of the horrible experiences that my friends and family have gone through.
My interest in making My Stolen Revolution was partially to find some closure to the decades of guilt I felt escaping from Iran and leaving my 17-year-old brother, Rostam, behind in prison. As soon as he was executed I fled the country.
I always felt that if I had turned myself in, his life might have been saved.
To find my friends, I used an organisation that was formed for political prisoners living in exile. Others were found online. Through my research, I found out that a large number of my friends had been executed.
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