Forbidden Voices (2012)

Directed by

Barbara Miller

Genre

documentary film

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three women from Cuba, China, and Iran blog about human rights and free speech. The film shows their motivations and the political repression they face for speaking out.

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What happens

Forbidden Voices is a documentary film by director Barbara Miller about the fight for human rights and freedom of speech of three female bloggers: Yoani Sánchez from Cuba, Zeng Jinyan from China and Farnaz Seifi from Iran. The film explores the motivation and goals of the online activists' struggle and traces the consequences and political repression the three women are facing for their courageous activism. The documentary won the Amnesty International Award 2013 and the WACC SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2012, and was nominated for the Swiss Film Award and the Prix de Soleure in 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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