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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • 8 Above
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • 8 Above
  • 1 h 32 m
Nasrin

Summary Nasrin was secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make this documentary. It is an immersive portrait of the world’s most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement. In the courts and on the streets, Nasrin has long fough...

Directed By: Jeff Kaufman

Written By: Jeff Kaufman

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • 8 Above
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • 8 Above
  • 1 h 32 m

Nasrin

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary Nasrin was secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make this documentary. It is an immersive portrait of the world’s most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement. In the courts and on the streets, Nasrin has long fough...

Directed By: Jeff Kaufman

Written By: Jeff Kaufman

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75
Jun 15, 2021
In depicting one woman’s fight for justice, Kaufman’s indelible documentary becomes an empowering three-dimensional story of resistance and courage.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 19, 2020
Allowed surprising access to Sotudeh’s life, the film achieves stirring results if not an always fluid narrative.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 17, 2020
The documentary does not display artistic flair or innovation, but that is not its purpose. It is solid and straightforward in style, but extraordinary in its access and in how clearly her personality and philosophy emerge.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 17, 2020
This extraordinary woman, seemingly incapable of despair through roughly two decades of struggle, remains elusive. There’s something daunting about this degree of implacable selflessness, and it has a curiously flattening effect on a movie that feels less emotionally complex — less enraged — than it ought to.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Floating World Pictures
Release Date Oct 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Iran
Website https://www.facebook.com/nasrinfilm
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Awards

Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination

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