Sanctions - Opportunity in Disguise (2022)

Up to 2022, The U.S. government imposed economic penalties on at least 116 countries and more than 7100 companies, organizations, and individuals. Among those economic embargoes, 43-years of sanctions on Iran is one of the longest. For more than four decades, these sanctions have been deteriorating the life of Iranian people and their civil rights. Sanctions on Us narrates the story of people who are destructively affected by the U.S. economic embargoes. Although the film explores the unbearable living conditions created for Iranian families under U.S. sanctions, it is an invitation to peace and friendship by soliciting the future generations of lawmakers to make positive changes. Sanctions on Us looks at Iranians' attempts to build transnational connections where governments are trying to seed divisions. This documentary intends to encourage the viewers to propose a solution and search for an answer to this complicated political situation.