Forced Confessions

Forced Confessions (Persian: اعترافات اجباری, Eterafate-e Ejbari) is a 2012 documentary film by the Persian Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari about the forced confessions in Iran obtained from a suspect through torture.

Forced Confessions
World Premiere of Forced Confessions in Amsterdam
Directed by	Maziar Bahari
Screenplay by	Maziar Bahari
Produced by	Maziar Bahari for Off-Centre Productions
Cinematography	John Templeton
Edited by	James Mullett
Music by	Nainita Desai Malcolm Laws
Running time	58 minutes
Country	England
Languages	English and Persian

The film premiered at the 25th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2012. The short version of the film was aired by BBC Persian TV simultaneously.

Synopsis

In 2009, filmmaker Maziar Bahari, a guest of honor at IDFA 2007, claimed he was forced to make a false confession that he had been collaborating with the West and committed espionage. As a filmmaker and journalist working for Western broadcasting corporations, he was the perfect scapegoat for the regime. This was a common experience for intellectuals, writers, philosophers and journalists since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The director's voice-over and interviews with fellow Iranians who have gone through the same agony lead the spectator through Iran's history of coerced confessions. They are demeaning stories about clever men who never expected to be forced to make false confessions in public but were forced to due to heavy torture.

External links

• Forced Confessions on IDFA website Archived 18 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine