Film screening: Tod in Teheran (Death in Teheran)

Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, the parents of artist/activist Parastour Forouhar, were among Iran’s leading opposition politicians. In 1998, they were murdered, presumably by the Iranian Secret Service. The murders were part of the so-called Chain murders of Iran, which demanded the lives of numerous oppositional intellectuals in the 1990s. Parastour Forouhar has been working in Germany since 1991. Every year, for the anniversary of her parents’ death, she travels to Tehran to take part in events commemorating her murdered parents. For that, the Iranian regime has subjected her to harassment and even part-time imprisonment.

Film-maker Thomas Giefer met Parastou Forouhar’s parents shortly before they were murdered. He was the last person to interview them on camera, resulting in a touching film document and testimony to their life-long political partnership. The film reconstructs the horrible details of this politically and religiously motivated murder, escorting the daughter Parastou Forouhar on her search for justice and the truth and following the traces of the crime right into the Islamic theocracy’s centre of power.