Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Country: Germany/Iran
Year: 2010
Length: 80 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Screening Times: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 8 PM | Buy Tickets
Synopsis
The prevalence and power of social media has increasingly become a tool for political movements worldwide, not least in the case of Iran’s Green Revolution, whose 2009 “Where’s My Vote” campaign on behalf of reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi directly challenged the fait accompli of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contested re-election.
Utilizing front line YouTube footage from protest events, blog postings, Twitters, Facebook updates and dramatic re-enactments of events via animated testimonials, this clever documentary collage speaks powerfully, as per its director’s dedication, to “mankind’s yearning for freedom and dignity.”
Festivals & Awards
Sundance Film Festival, USA 2011
Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Canada 2010: Canadian Premiere
Interviews & Reviews
Bloomberg — Iran Exile Documents Protests, Police Brutality in ‘Green Wave’
Payvand Iran News — Film: The Green Wave
Screen Daily — A powerful and artfully constructed documentary that blends animation and interviews with tweets and blogs…
Today’s Zaman — The Green Wave
Variety — Reviews: The Green Wave
Director’s Bio
Director and author Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in 1972 in the north Iranian city of Tabriz. In 1985, when he was 12 years old, he came to Germany without his family and later took his Abitur in Hannover. In Kassel he studied visual communication with the focus on film and television. At the end of the 90’s he started his career as a filmmaker. He participated in several documentaries and reports as director, film editor or cinematographer.
For his documentary Culture Clan he was nominated for the Rose d’Or award, and in Cape Town he won the Channel O Award in the category of “Best Foreign Music Film”. Literally a flood of awards followed soon after for his documentary Lost Children in co-production with Oliver Stoltz, which won the German Film Award 2006 as well as numerous international awards (among others the UNICEF Award, Al Jazeera Award). Recently, Ahadi made his first feature film, Salam Aleikum, in 2009 reaching a top position in the Arthouse charts with this culture clash comedy.
External Links
Official Website
The Green Wave Trailer (English)
The Green Wave on IMDb