Screening 'Hitch, an Iranian Story'

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Hitch, an Iranian Story weaves together the grand sweep of history and the personal history surrounding the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayals and their consequences. The experience of political violence is presented from the inside, through how it nourishes representations, images, discourses and silences. The filmmaker, the daughter of an opponent of the Islamic Republic who was imprisoned, tortured and killed, speaks out against the political denial of the Iranian regime by reviving the reality of the extermination of opponents by the …