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Writing on the City
2016 Iranian film
Writing on the City (Persian: نوشتن بر شهر, translit. Neveshtan bar Shahr) is a 60 minutes documentary film about graffiti in Tehran by Iranian Independent filmmaker Keywan Karimi. The Karimi started working on the documentary in 2012 and completed it in August 2015. It has since been edited several times and has been shown in several film festivals.
Karimi arrested in 2013 by Revolutionary Guard Corps and in October 2015 sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court to six years imprisonment and 223 Lashes for "propagating against the Islamic Republic" and "insulting religious sanctities.[1]