EXCLUSIVE: France’s Jour2FêteProduction and Norway’s Antipode Films have joined Spain’s Fasten Films and Lastor Media to co-produce Pegah Ahangarani and Abbas Ghazali’s untitled feature documentary about five women who were severely injured during the Iranian government crackdown of 2022.
The violence followed the protests against the murder of Masha Amini.
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In the wake of a new wave of state repression and violence, the filmmakers are presently working in exile, Ahangarani in London and Ghazali in Spain. Production will start in 2027.
Among the witnesses who will appear in the documentary is Kosar Eftekhari, a theatre student who lost vision in one eye. She was shot in front of the University of Tehran while trying to protect other protesters. Now living in Berlin, she has made the decision to refuse a cosmetic prosthesis so her injured eye remains a testimony to the regime’s crimes.
It is the first feature to be produced by Fasten Films’ new doc strand. The company currently has several fiction films in the pipeline, including Maria Martinez Bayona’s The End Of It, starring Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal and Noomi Rapace.
Aharangani’s previous work as a director includes the shorts My Father (2023), which received a special mention at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and I Am Trying to Remember (2021), winner of the jury award at the Busan International Short Film Festival.
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