Film screening: Eternal Sentinel

Speaker(s)
Maryam Ashrafi
Date
Tue October 4th 2022, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Event Sponsor
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Event is open to
Everyone
Experience Type
In-Person
Location
In Person at Stanford (location TBD)

Please join us for a screening of the documentary film “Eternal Sentinel” (61 minutes) and discussion with filmmaker Maryam Ashrafi.  Watch the trailer for the film.

**Warning: images of war and death**

Eternal Sentinel follows the journey of British-Iranian filmmaker/photographer Maryam Ashrafi as she encounters journalists who have been wounded or who have witnessed deadly incidents involving mines and IEDs in Iraq and Syria and, in so doing, tries to come to terms with her own trauma and guilt while raising awareness of the ongoing consequences of war.

Maryam Ashrafi is a Paris-based Iranian photographer. Born in Tehran in 1982 during the Iran and Iraq war, Maryam is passionate about sociology and focuses her work on social and socio-political issues around the world. She graduated with a BA in social documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport in England. Maryam has worked on various subjects including: refugees in Paris, mobilization of the Kurdish and Iranian diasporas, and the Indignants Movement. As a freelance independent photographer, she has primarily covered the situation of the Kurds, in particular the aftermath of wars in Northern Syria (from Kobane to Sinjar) in Iraqi Kurdistan, until 2018. Her work on Kurdish resistance movements has been the subject of several exhibitions and publications, including in The Guardian. Her long-term work on Kurdish issues has also driven her to work as a camerawoman in documentaries such as I Am The Revolution (2018, premiere at DOC NYC). Maryam recently published her first book, Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets, based on her long term project on Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan between 2012-2018. Eternal Sentinel is her first documentary film, focusing on the problem of landmines and IEDs through the experience of journalists in the same region.

If you need a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact us at iranianstudies [at] stanford.edu (iranianstudies[at]stanford[dot]edu). Requests should be made by September 26, 2022.

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