For Neda

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On 20 June 2009, Neda Agha Soltan was shot in the heart by a sniper in a back street of Tehran. Within hours of her death this young Iranian woman's dying moments, captured on mobile phones, appeared on computer screens across the world. Anthony Thomas's film tells Neda's personal story and attempts to find out who this young woman was, how she became a powerful symbol to millions and what she was fighting for.