"On January 2, Raha Bahloulipour watched Sentimental Value, the latest film by the Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier, in her dorm room at the University of Tehran. It was the first film she viewed in 2026, and she liked it very much. I know this because Raha was, like myself, an avid user of the film-cataloging app Letterboxd. With its tag system and diary, she jotted down when, where, and in what context she watched movies and what she thought of them."
"On January 8 and 9, the Iranian regime mowed down thousands of protesters all across the country. Raha was one of them, killed by a bullet that pierced her lungs. A 24-year-old student of Italian literature at the University of Tehran, Raha took part in the movement from its beginning, on December 29. On that day, she shared her impressions in a Telegram post that mingled English, Italian, and her native Persian."
On January 2, Raha Bahloulipour watched Sentimental Value in her University of Tehran dorm and marked it a favorite. She used Letterboxd to record when, where, and how she watched films, starting in August 2023 and logging 795 films across 888 days. She tagged Trier's film "protests" after watching amid nationwide anti-regime demonstrations. On January 8 and 9, regime forces killed thousands of protesters; Raha was killed by a bullet that pierced her lungs. A 24-year-old Italian literature student, she joined the movement on December 29 and posted multilingual impressions and calls for campus solidarity on Telegram. Her Telegram channel centered on arts, culture, and photographs of Tehran.
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