Forced Confessions

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{{Infobox film

| name = Forced Confessions

| image = Maziar-Bahari-Persian-Canadian-Journalist-IDFA-Forced-Confessions-Premiere-2012.jpg

| caption = World Premiere of Forced Confessions in Amsterdam

| director = Maziar Bahari

| producer = Maziar Bahari for Off-Centre Productions

| screenplay = Maziar Bahari

| based_on =

| starring =

| music = Nainita Desai
Malcolm Laws

| cinematography = John Templeton

| editing = James Mullett

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2012}}

| runtime = 58 minutes

| country = England

| language = English and Persian

| budget =

| gross =

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Forced Confessions ({{langx|fa|اعترافات اجباری}}, Eterafate-e Ejbari) is a 2012 documentary film by the Persian Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari about the forced confessions in Iran obtained from a suspect through torture.{{cite news |title = World Premiere of "FORCED CONFESSIONS" by Maziar Bahari in Amsterdam |first = Pejman |last = Akbarzadeh |author-link = Pejman Akbarzadeh |url = http://iranian.com/main/blog/pejman7/world-premiere-forced-confessions-maziar-bahari-amsterdam |newspaper = Iranian.com |date = 21 November 2012 |accessdate = 21 November 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121127183450/http://iranian.com/main/blog/pejman7/world-premiere-forced-confessions-maziar-bahari-amsterdam |archive-date = 27 November 2012 |url-status = dead }}

The film premiered at the 25th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2012. The short version of the film was aired by BBC Persian TV simultaneously.

Synopsis

In 2009, filmmaker Maziar Bahari, a guest of honor at IDFA 2007, claimed he was forced to make a false confession that he had been collaborating with the West and committed espionage. The story is told via the director's voice-over and interviews with other Iranians who have gone through similar experiences of forced confessions.

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