Heartbreaking content triumphs over self-indulgent form in the highly emotional and personal docu “My Stolen Revolution.” Iran-born, Sweden-based helmer Nahid Persson Sarvestani (“The Queen and I”) ...

Thirty years after she fled Iran, a filmmaker reconnects with fellow activists who weren’t fortunate enough to avoid imprisonment. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Filmmaker Nahid ...

Nahid Persson Sarvestani was one of the lucky ones. She escaped the clutches of Iran’s theocracy shortly after the revolution and settled into a comfortable life in Sweden. Except, quite naturally, ...

Practical aspects of Koran-sanctioned polygamy play out in a small Iranian village in “Four Wives — One Man.” Another of Swedish documaker Nahid Persson’s character-driven slices of life centering on ...

Iranian exile and filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani chronicles her curious relationship with Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the former Shah of Iran whom Sarvestani helped oust as a participant in the ...

"The Queen And I" is a documentary born from revolution and interrogation. Some years ago, Nahid Persson was detained during a trip to her native Iran, questioned for hours, and prevented from leaving ...

Iranian-born director Nahid Persson earned high honors at the recent Creteil International Women's Films Festival for her chronicle of two young women on the streets of Tehran. "Prostitution Behind ...

The former empress of Iran, Farah Pahlavi, is the subject of a newly released documentary from an unlikely source -- Iranian-born filmmaker Nahid Persson, a former communist who took part in the 1979 ...

07/03/2013 - Imprisoned in Iran for having 'shamed' her country, award-winning Iranian-Swedish director Nahid Persson (Revolution Behind the Veil) returns Her brother did not have the chance – he was ...

Nahid Persson Sarvestani, born 24 May 1960 in Shiraz, Iran, is an award-winning Iranian-Swedish documentary filmmaker and director, who came to Sweden as a refugee after the Iranian revolution 1979.

Practical aspects of Koran-sanctioned polygamy play out in a small Iranian village in “Four Wives — One Man.” Another of Swedish documaker Nahid Persson’s character-driven slices of life centering on ...

Heartbreaking content triumphs over self-indulgent form in the highly emotional and personal docu “My Stolen Revolution.” Iran-born, Sweden-based helmer Nahid Persson Sarvestani (“The Queen and I”) ...