Without My Daughter

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name = Without My Daughter


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director = Kari Tervo Alexis Kouros
producer = Kari Tervo Alexis Kouros
writer = Alexis Kouros
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music = Tuomas Kantelinen
cinematography = Jari Pollari
editing = Riitta Poikselkä
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released = 2002
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country = FIN
language = English Persian
budget = €423,600
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imdb_id = 0345428

Without My Daughter (2002, Finland) is a 90-minute documentary directed by Kari Tervo and Alexis Kouros.

In 1989, a book titled "Not Without My Daughter" was published, based on the story of an American woman, Betty Mahmoody. According to the book, Mahmoody and her daughter Mahtob were taken by her Iranian husband, Bozorg Mahmoody, for a "two-week holiday" to Iran, and he kept them there against their will. She managed to escape 18 months later, taking their 5-year-old daughter with her to Turkey and back to the United States. In 1991, a movie titled "Not Without My Daughter" starring Sally Field was released, based on the events described in her book.

This documentary tells Bozorg Mahmoody's side of that story. This documentary goes beyond the personal and emotional desires of a father seeking to meet his daughter and explores the wider political and global contexts underlying the case of the Mahmoody family.

Festivals and Awards

* International Documentary Festival Amsterdam IDFA, Joris Ivens series 2002
* Docpoint International Documentary festival, Helsinki, Finland 2003
* Gothenburg Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden 2003
* Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, Iran 2003
* Tampere International Film Festival, Tampere, Finland 2003
* VERA, Short and Documentary Film Festival, Mariehamn, Finland 2003
* East Lansing International Film Festival, Michigan, USA 2003
* Jeon Ju International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea 2003

External links

*imdb title|id=0345428
* [http://www.payvand.com/news/02/nov/1078.html Finnish documentary counters anti-Iran propaganda in US film]
* [http://www.hartnett.nl/_fwodaug.htm Without my daughter]