[van-announce] Film on Queers in Iran at the Queer Film Fest

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Salaam Vancouver is proud to be a community sponsor of the this documentry about transgender people in Iran at the Out on Screen Queer Film Festival.    I Know That I Am

  SUN | AUG 20 | 7:00 PM | CINEMARK TINSELTOWN   

  World Premiere
  Director in attendance 
  
 
  Despite the fact that much of the footage—shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran—was captured and presumed destroyed by local authorities, I Know That I Am exists thanks to the tenacity of director Peyman Khosravi.
  Out On Screen is extremely proud to present the world premiere of this unique, powerful documentary. I Know That I Am reveals the little-told story of trans queers in Iran. Vilified by society and without support networks outside their small communities, theirs is one of survival against the odds: according to law, sexual “deviancy” is punishable by hanging. Through interviews with government officials, human rights advocates and trans people themselves, the film constructs a telling, important portrait of queer struggles amidst profound cultural restrictions. 
   
  Peyman Khosravi /Iran/Canada /2006 /video 
  /EN,Other /Total time: 70 min

   
  Post-film party at the gSpot 

  
  


 		
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