Recognizing that the economic disparities resulting from privilege and exacerbated by the pandemic are a barrier to engagement, in 2021, NDHRFF has completely removed financial barriers to engage with the festival. As a result, access to the festival's programming is entirely free and accessible to all. All passes and individual film screenings are pay-as-you-can. As your individual situation allows, you are welcome to make a donation to the festival to help support our work.
Films are available to screen midnight, Tuesday, November 2 through midnight, Thursday, November 18.
Films in the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival have not been rated for adult content and may include violence, nudity, language, and adult situations. Viewer discretion is advised.
"Have you ever counted from 1 to 1500?"
Made with virtually no budget during COVID-19 quarantine, IRANIAN LIVES MATTER abstractly recounts the true story of what occurred in Iran during the November 2019 protests — sparked by a surprise hike in gasoline prices — which quickly spread across the entire nation and was subsequently crushed by the dictator's iron fist, resulting in the death of approximately 1500 protesters, as reported by Reuters.
IRANIAN LIVES MATTER is an experimental documentary — designed to serve as an audio-visual endurance test — that audibly takes its audience through the chaos in the streets of Iran as the brutal regime cracks down on Iranian protesters, while visually showing the hands of the dictatorship as it crosses out 1500 lives one by one to further emphasize the scale of the massacre and show to a world desensitized to news of mass killings in the Middle East what the term "1500 dead" truly means.
- Year2020
- Runtime67 minutes
- LanguagePersian
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAn Iranian
Recognizing that the economic disparities resulting from privilege and exacerbated by the pandemic are a barrier to engagement, in 2021, NDHRFF has completely removed financial barriers to engage with the festival. As a result, access to the festival's programming is entirely free and accessible to all. All passes and individual film screenings are pay-as-you-can. As your individual situation allows, you are welcome to make a donation to the festival to help support our work.
Films are available to screen midnight, Tuesday, November 2 through midnight, Thursday, November 18.
Films in the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival have not been rated for adult content and may include violence, nudity, language, and adult situations. Viewer discretion is advised.
"Have you ever counted from 1 to 1500?"
Made with virtually no budget during COVID-19 quarantine, IRANIAN LIVES MATTER abstractly recounts the true story of what occurred in Iran during the November 2019 protests — sparked by a surprise hike in gasoline prices — which quickly spread across the entire nation and was subsequently crushed by the dictator's iron fist, resulting in the death of approximately 1500 protesters, as reported by Reuters.
IRANIAN LIVES MATTER is an experimental documentary — designed to serve as an audio-visual endurance test — that audibly takes its audience through the chaos in the streets of Iran as the brutal regime cracks down on Iranian protesters, while visually showing the hands of the dictatorship as it crosses out 1500 lives one by one to further emphasize the scale of the massacre and show to a world desensitized to news of mass killings in the Middle East what the term "1500 dead" truly means.
- Year2020
- Runtime67 minutes
- LanguagePersian
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorAn Iranian