''Without My Daughter'' (2002,

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) is a 90-minute documentary directed by Kari Tervo and Alexis Kouros., pg. 258 In 1987, '' Not Without My Daughter'' was published, based on the story of an

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woman,

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. According to the book, Mahmoody and her daughter, Mahtob, were taken by her Iranian husband, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, for a "two-week holiday" to

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, and he kept them there against their will. She managed to escape 18 months later over the mountains into

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, taking their 5-year-old daughter with her back to the United States. In 1991, '' Not Without My Daughter'', a film starring

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and

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, was released, based on the events described in her book. ''Without My Daughter'', directed by Iranian-Finnish Alexis Kouros, relates Sayyed Mahmoody's account, purportedly to explore the wider political and global contexts underlying the case of the Mahmoody family.

Festival screenings

*International Documentary Festival Amsterdam IDGA, 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,

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2003

References

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"Finnish Documentary Counters Anti-Iran Propaganda in US Film"
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