Forbidden Voices is a documentary film by director Barbara Miller about the fight for human rights and freedom of speech of three female bloggers: Yoani Sánchez from Cuba, Zeng Jinyan from China and Farnaz Seifi from Iran.

The film Forbidden Voices explores the motivation and goals of the online activists' struggle and traces the consequences and political repressions the three women are facing for their courageous activism.

Seen by their governments as dissidents the bloggers are often under surveillance and facing harsh repressions.

Yoani Sánchez has been beaten and arrested, as well as publicly defamed on Cuban State TV for fighting for human rights in Cuba;[3][4][5][6] Zeng Jinyan lived for years with her husband Hu Jia and her new born daughter under house arrest in Beijing for their fight for human rights in China;[7][8][9] and Farnaz Seifi has been arrested for her fight for gender equality in Iran and forced in to exile.

[10][11][12] The award-winning documentary Forbidden Voices premiered at the 2012 Visions du Réel Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, and had its International Premiere at IDFA, The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.