The special human rights award of the Vienna Film Festival was awarded to Mojgan Ilanlou
The Vienna Human Rights Film Festival awarded its special human rights prize to Mojgan Ilanlou for the film ‘Thousands of Women’
Mojgan Ilanlou, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, was arrested on the night of October 17, 2022
In the early days of the protests, she had published photos of herself without the mandatory hijab on her Instagram account
At the award ceremony of the Vienna Human Rights Film Festival, the message from this female documentarian, sent from Qarchak Varamin prison, was read
Mojgan Ilanlou dedicated her award to thousands of anonymous and unknown women who have come forward these days to claim their most basic rights with the most effective weapon in the world, which is their own lives