Film Screening: FATHER, DAUGHTER, AND THE IMMORTAL SONG
Date and Time
Jul 6, 2024 7:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Jul 6, 2024 7:00 pm
450K
Film Screening
FATHER, DAUGHTER, AND THE IMMORTAL SONGA Story of One Woman's Fight for Liberation, Justice, and Equality
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
The film Father, Daughter, and the Immortal Song is essentially two stories intertwined. The father is Malek o'Shoara Bahar, the greatest neoclassical poet in Iran since the fourteenth century. A humanist, a leading intellectual in pursuit of social reform and freedom for the people of Iran. His determination to change the social order and see democracy flower in his country brought him several periods in jail and exile in Iran.
His daughter Parvaneh Bahar was the seed from which she sprang, and grew. He provided the fertile garden and Parvaneh became a courageous woman whose determination to leave the world a better place, led her to embrace the cause of the oppressed in her adoptive country, the United States of America. The stories of Parvaneh and her father's struggle for reform mirror one another, both singing the song of freedom for all human beings.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Sogand Seirafi is a professional Engineer in the United States and producer of the Radio Rumi Podcast. She struggles with her identity as an Iranian-American woman living in America and working in a male-dominated industry. In her journey to understanding her identity, she became a documentary filmmaker and producer. In the process of making her first film Father, Daughter and the Immortal Song of Freedom she connected to a lioness and her identity. It's not about being a woman, Iranian or American. It is about here and now, are you going to have the courage to stand up for the oppressed or look the other way?
