LITTLE ROCK, Ark — An Arkansas filmmaker will be premiering a short documentary at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The filmmaker, Andy Sarjahani, will be premiering an animated documentary titled "The Smallest Power." The film will be included in the documentary short film program that's set to begin showings on Thursday, January 25, 2024.
"The Smallest Power" is described in a press release as a "first-person testimony of an Iranian medical resident who is forced to act when the chaos in the streets comes to her hospital floor in the aftermath of Jina Mahsa Amini’s murder on September 16, 2022."
In the "The Smallest Power," Sarjahani navigates the topics of oppression. The film also documents the Islamic Republic's "once-in-a-generation" revolutionary moment from the scope of an Iranian woman.
Sarjahani himself is an Iranian-American filmmaker and cinematographer who was raised outside of the Arkansas Ozarks.
Sarjahani's work focuses heavily on human ecology, the natural world, the American South, and a window into "the experience of the Iranian diaspora."
For more information on the "The Smallest Power," you can click here. The film is set to be available for the public's view online from Jan. 25, 2024 beginning at 9 a.m. until Jan. 29, 2024 at 12:55 a.m.