Nobel de la Paix Shirin Ebady, une simple avocate

Documentaire
    Réalisé par Bani Khoshnoudi • Écrit par Bani Khoshnoudi
    France • 2005 • 59 minutes • DV Cam • Couleur
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Résumé

Depuis qu’elle a reçu le Prix Nobel de la Paix 2003, la vie de Shirin Ebadi, avocate iranienne et activiste pour les Droits de l’homme, a radicalement changé. Entre ses voyages pour participer à des conférences en Europe sur la démocratie, ses interventions lors d’évènements tels que le Forum Social Mondial en Inde, et ses visites de chefs d’État, Shirin Ebadi est devenue, malgré elle, un vrai personnage politique international. Ayant toujours affirmé qu’elle luttait pour le droit et non pour des raisons politiques, Shirin Ebadi fait face aujourd’hui aux pressions et aux attentes de tout un peuple et d’une communauté internationale qui souhaiteraient voir en elle le porte-drapeau d’un nouvel Iran. Comment Shirin Ebadi, simple avocate et défenseur des Droits de l’homme à Téhéran, vit-elle ce nouveau statut ? Comment se positionne-t’elle sur la scène internationale ou en Iran ? En filmant Shirin Ebadi dans son travail quotidien, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi, elle-même iranienne, tente d’apporter une réponse à cette question et permet de mieux la connaître.

On October 10, 2003 the world was taken by surprise with the announcement of the attribution of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian woman lawyer who few on the international scene had really heard of, despite 30 years of struggling under the Islamic regime. In a matter of a day, Shirin Ebadi became a world-famous symbol of human rights and resistance against dictatorship in Iran... Since October, Shirin Ebadi has toured the world, meeting with heads of state, making speeches, participating in conferences, and giving interviews to press writers and television journalists from Norway to Colombia, from Indonesia to France, India, Poland, Canada, etc. Shirin Ebadi has become the center of interest in a worldwide debate on Islam, on the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, and on the major political changes that are taking place in this country.
The whole world is watching and interrogating her intensively... What will she do with the prize? What political changes will she bring about? What does she really defend and want to accomplish? What is she going to do? In the face of these questions, Shirin Ebadi remains quite stoic and does not always respond the way that journalists would hope. She does not make grand political statements and refuses to enter a controversial debate on Iran and its mullah leaders. This becomes quite frustrating, both for journalists and for the wider public who are both trying to figure out who this woman is. So who is Shirin Ebadi...really?
With this documentary Banafsheh Khoshnoudi follows Shirin Ebadi during 3 months in her new, post-Nobel life in order to show in an intimate portrait, who this woman is and what her real preoccupations are..

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