Resilience

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Screen Shot 2013-10-11 at 11.50.11 PMDordaneh Dadui, Canada, 2013, 13 min, in Farsi and English with English subtitles

Precedes MARGINAL ROAD, Saturday, 2 November 2013, 4:00 pm, Carlton Cinema

Yeganeh and her parents fled Iran years ago. Just because she’s safe from the country’s oppressive regime, doesn’t mean she’s forgotten the hardships she endured there. But you would never know it. Yeganeh is a master at hiding any sign of weakness ‐ one of the reasons she made it out of Tehran alive. But as the pressure becomes too much, she finally breaks down and relives the horrible events that lead up to her parents emigration from Iran: a murder, an underground political movement, and her kidnapping and eventual escape.