Film screening – Solitudes: Past and Present https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk Research on Pathologies of Solitude, 18th – 21st century Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:25:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.8 Film screening and Q&A – ‘The Tree That Remembers’ https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/events/film-screening-and-qa-the-tree-that-remembers/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:26:26 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?post_type=events&p=638 Following a screening of Masoud Raouf's 2002 film 'The Tree That Remembers', Shokoufeh Sakhi speaks to Barbara Taylor about her role in the film and her experiences as a prisoner of conscience in 1980s Iran.

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]]> In 1992, a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario town. Having escaped the Ayatollah’s regime and found a new home in Canada, he could not escape his past. In ‘The Tree That Remembers’, Masoud Raouf documents the experiences of Iranian-Canadians, former political prisoners like himself, who were active in the Iranian democratic movement and continue to struggle with the past.

One of his subjects is Shokoufeh Sakhi, now a researcher at the University of Toronto and a member of the ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ research network. Following a screening of the film, Shokoufeh will join Barbara Taylor for a discussion of her role in the film and the experience of solitary confinement as a prisoner of conscience in 1980s Iran.

Places are limited so please register for tickets here.

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