Apr 20, 2017
88 min
Full-HD

When God Sleeps (2017)

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.

Category

Music Documentary

Country

Germany United States of America

Companies

ITVS Catapult Film Fund Motto Pictures Fork Films Independent Film Producers (IFP) Sundance Institute WDR Film- und Medienstiftung NRW Partner Pictures

Shahin Najafi

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