Braving the Waves
Documentary Film
Iran/Norway/France/Lebanon, 90 mins, 2016
This is the story of Roghieh, a 40-year-old woman in southern Iran who tries to empower other women in her community by running a local Bazaar but the mayor of the city is a big obstacle for her in this way
Wireter & Director: Mina Keshavarz
Editor: Veronique Lagoarde-Segot
Camera: Mina Keshavarz, Amin Behroozzadeh
Sound Design: Sander Olsen, Audun Rostad, Jorgen Meyer, Gustav Espenes
Music: Amin Behroozzadeh
Painting: Nima Hashemian
Producer: Mina Keshavarz
Co-Producer: Christian Falch, Torstein Parelius
Selected Screening :
- Films from South International Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
- International Trondheim Documentary Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
- International Cinema Verite Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
- One World International Human Rights Film Festival, Prague, Czech
- Nordic International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
- ArchFilm Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2017
- L’escales Documentaire Film Festival, La Rochelle, France, November 2017
- London International Documentary Film Festival/ LIDF2017
- Women Voices Now, USA, 2018
- MelDoc Film Festival, Macedonia, 2018
- Les Mois du Documentaire (Month of Documentary Film in France )/ November 2021
Awards :
- Special Mention Award for Best Feature Length Documentary In London Documentary International Film Festival 2017
