Movie

We Are Journalists

“A documentary about the reality of Iranian journalists”

Ahmad Jalali Farahani works as a journalist in Iran. On 27 December 2009, he sees an innocent man being killed on the street, but neither Ahmad or his colleagues dare write about the murder. The journalists are hard-pressed and struggle daily against censorship and control, and even the otherwise conservative newspaper Tehran Emrooz gets to know the wrath of President Ahmadinejad, when it is ordered closed after the publication of one single critical picture.

Director

Ahmad Jalali Farahani

Screenplay

Frank Piasecki Poulsen

Status

Released

Release date

08/11/2014

Original language

English