Playing The Tree that Remembers

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The Tree that Remembers

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Contributed by Citizen Shift

Length: 2 min 51 sec

Year of Production: 2002

Director:

Masoud Raouf

Producer:

NFB

Filmmaker Masoud Raouf was moved to create this compassionate film when he heard of a young Iranian student who hanged himself from a tree in Canada. He had escaped the Ayatollahs' regime, but he could not escape his past. The Tree that Remembers provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of a group of former Iranian political prisoners (guilty only for fighting for peace). It is a compassionate reflection on the betrayal of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the tenacity of the human spirit.