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Interviews

Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Shirin Neshat – “Land of Dreams”

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian artist and filmmaker living in New York. She works in photography, video installation, and film. Neshat has held numerous exhibitions internationally, most recently at the...

Interviews

DOC NYC 2021 Women Directors: Meet Nahid Persson – “Be My Voice”

Nahid Persson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Sweden. She was born in Iran and took political asylum in Sweden as a result of her political activism during and after the 1979...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Three Sisters Fight to Win in Martial Arts Doc From Iran “Platform”

“Becoming a champion is easy; staying one is hard,” we are told in the new trailer for “Platform,” a documentary about women martial artists in Iran. Described as a...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: An Iranian Activist and Human Rights Lawyer Refuses to Be Silenced in “Nasrin”

A new documentary is paying tribute to Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer described as “one of the bravest voices in Iran.” Known for taking on cases other lawyers are too...

News

Iranian Actress Causes Uproar Over Feminist Tattoo

Consider Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti our hero of the week. At a press conference on Monday for the movie “The Salesman,” photographers captured what appears to be a tattoo of the “woman...

Interviews, News

Director Mitra Farahani on Legendary Painter Bahman Mohassess and the Artist’s Plight in Iran

Nakedlimbs, tangled, dancing; gaping mouths; and sightless eyes — much of Iranianartist Bahman Mohassess’ work strikes the first-time viewer alternately as acelebration of the human...

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