"Take my voice with you."

The Stoning Of Soraya M
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Genre: Crime/Drama
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh

Mark: 1 to 5 [5]

Plot: Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day before. As the journalist turns on his tape recorder, Zahra takes us back to the beginning of her story, which involves Soraya’s husband, the local phony mullah, and a town all too easily led down a path of deceit, coercion and hysteria. The women, stripped of all rights and without recourse, nobly confront the overwhelming desires of corrupt men who use and abuse their authority to condemn Soraya, an innocent but inconvenient wife, to an unjust and torturous death. A drama that exposes the dark power of mob rule, uncivil law, and the utter lack of human rights for women. The last and only hope for some measure of justice lies in the hands of the journalist who must escape with the story — and his life — so the world will know. Based on the book of the same title by French-Iranian author Freidoune Sahebjam.

Personal View: Shocking movie, based in a true history to just feel even more cruel. Shows the cruelty without ‘why’ at Iran, until what point a human being can be unfair to another person to kill that person, tru stoning. Strong scenes that ill anyone. One of the bests movies of this film festival. Highly recommended.

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