A feature documentary by Sally Momtazi
Journey of Hope
Through intimate testimony, Iranian women and men forced to flee oppression confront Britain’s asylum system and the difficult work of rebuilding life, identity and belonging in exile.
- Format
- Feature documentary
- Runtime
- 64 minutes
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Completed
The film
A deeply human account of what happens after escape, when safety is complicated by waiting, uncertainty and the loss of home.
Journey of Hope follows Iranian women and men whose lives have been reshaped by forced displacement. Having left Iran after experiences of oppression, discrimination and violence, they arrive in the United Kingdom expecting safety, only to encounter a different kind of uncertainty.
The film stays close to the people living these consequences. First-person testimonies reveal the emotional weight of waiting, the difficulty of starting again and the tension between physical safety and the loss of familiarity, community and belonging.
By centring dignity and agency, the documentary asks what freedom means after escape and what it takes to create a future when so much of the past has been left behind.
“People who are discussed constantly in political debates are too rarely heard on their own terms.”
Festival recognition
Award-winning. Internationally selected.
Official trailer
Witness the journey.
For buyers and programmers
Available for acquisition and exhibition.
- Rights
- Broadcast and platform rights available
- Delivery
- Digital screener available
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Human rights, asylum, exile, Iranian diaspora
SallyCraft Productions
Sally Momtazi
Sally is a UK-based documentary filmmaker, director, producer and creative producer of Persian heritage, with more than 16 years of experience in television. Her work focuses on human rights, displacement, identity and people whose experiences are often reduced to headlines or overlooked altogether.
Journey of Hope is her flagship current project and continues her commitment to intimate testimony, cross-cultural storytelling and films that foreground dignity, resilience and the human consequences of political systems.
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