Leading man Navid Negahban pauses to speak to reporters outside the Mann Festival Theater in Westwood last week following the debut screening of The Stoning of Soraya M.at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Negahban played a starring role as Ali, husband of Soraya in the controversial Iranian Film about the rights of women under Islamic regimes. The Stoning is a high drama, disturbing film about anIranian woman stoned to death for trumped up charges of adultery by a husband who wanted a younger woman.

Leading man Navid Negahban pauses to speak to reporters outside the Mann Festival Theater in Westwood last week following the debut screening of The Stoning of Soraya M.at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Negahban played a starring role as Ali, husband of Soraya in the controversial Iranian Film about the rights of women under Islamic regimes. The Stoning is a high drama, disturbing film about anIranian woman stoned to death for trumped up charges of adultery by a husband who wanted a younger woman.