Peace One Day

Jeremy Gilley

27th August 2009

PHD in Philosophy at the University of Sorbonne, film critic in several revues, Olivier Mille first teached cinema and literature at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 1981 to 1987. In 1986 he established his company Artline Films, and since then he has been a film director and independent producer. He directed over 20 documentaries and produced around 150 films (features for cinema and TV as well as documentaries). After 23 years, Artline Films is now a well-known production company working with all major French channels and regularly co-producing with international partners and broadcasters such as PBS, BBC, ZDF, YLE, CBC, RTBF, NHK, TSR, NPS, TVOntario, SBS, WDR etc… Today, Artline shares its activity between important productions with a strong international potential, feature films projects with distribution to movie theatres, and more intimate films, new talents’ first films or confirmed directors’ « essays ». Olivier Mille was president of the PROCIREP Commission (Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision) from 2007 to 2008 and is now president of the FIPA (International TV Film Festival in Biarritz).
Synopsis

Over the course of a century, these images narrate the thwarted destiny of a pivotal nation, caught between archaism and modernity, secularity and religion, submissiveness and independence, East and West.

A crossroad country, a nation divided, Iran is on the rise after a century of political upheaval. The nuclear crisis has revealed to the world its goal: to become a world power. For the first time ever, this film will look back over 100 years of Iranian history to the veritable wellsprings of the confrontation between Iran and the western powers.

From 1908 to 2008, from the discovery of oil reserves to the nuclear crisis, we present a spectacular voyage to the heart of a country and a people, a colorful fresco focusing on real-life stories, interviews with prominent personalities (such as former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, politicians Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hubert Védrine…), unveiling archive images and authentic documents, and giving eyewitnesses – Iranian men and women – a chance to speak. A crisscrossing gaze, free of both prejudice and compromise: how they see us, how we see them.