Beyond Lies with Mahnaz Mohammadi

We invite you to a special screening of Beyond the Lies, a powerful and deeply moving documentary examining the November 2019 protests in Iran and the state violence that unfolded under the cover of an internet blackout.

Through official state media footage, archival material, witness testimonies, and the regime’s own language, the film exposes how power constructs narratives, conceals violence, and attempts to erase collective memory. Rather than relying on external commentary, Beyond the Lies turns directly to the images and words produced by the state itself, revealing the contradictions, silences, and mechanisms of denial embedded within them.

At the heart of the film are the families and survivors who chose to testify despite intimidation and danger, carrying the truth through memory, grief, and resistance.

Directed by Mahnaz Mohammadi, Beyond the Lies is a meditation on censorship, testimony, memory, and the struggle to preserve truth when violence is deliberately hidden from view.

“Power fears images. If the image survives, the truth survives.”
— Mahnaz Mohammadi