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An Eye for an Eye: “The feelings, the emotions, and the needs are universal, but they’re just in a different system.”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I speak with Emmy-nominated Iranian American filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian about her searing new documentary, An Eye for an Eye, co-directed with Farzad Jafari. This gripping, real-life courtroom thriller follows Tahereh, an Iranian woman who has served fourteen years in prison for killing her abusive husband and now faces execution unless she can negotiate forgiveness—or raise the “blood money” demanded by his family. Tanaz and I discuss the moral complexity that makes the film so powerful: the competing grief, rage, need for justice, and capacity for mercy on…
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