In a world half of the time devoid of role models and glamour on rust, there are women fighting for the right of their children to a lies-free world. Women like Nasrin Sotoudeh and Narges Mohammadi in Iran, for instance.
Nasrin Sotoudeh is a human rights activits in Iran, active in defending especially children and women rights and opposer of death penalty and compulsory hijab. Mother of two, she is one of the bravest and most genuine voices in Iran, a role-model for all the prisoners of conscience all over the world. A voice for the voiceless. Modest, humble, strong in her belief in building a better world.
Sotoudeh, who was released shortly a couple of weeks ago, is serving a 38-year sentence for her human rights activism.
Directed by Jeff Kaufmann, the movie Nasrin, recently released at the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival, was filmed illegally in Iran. From the fragments of various testimonies and snapshots from Sotoudeh´s everyday life, the movie draws the portrait of one of the most inspirational women of this century. There are many women and dissidents associated those days with the fights for rights in Iran, vocal and highly promoted. Nasrin Sotoudeh belives in what she is fighting for with no reward in sight. Her humble fight on behalf of those lacking the right justice and basic freedoms is an example of humanity. Together with Shirin Ebadi, who also appears in the movie, and Narges Mohammadi who appears episodically, Nasrin Sotoudeh is the voice of the prisoners of conscience from Iran and all over the world.
Nasrin is the diary of a woman whose main superpower is fighting on behalf of the powerless. Strong against tyranny by the force of her fragility.
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