In the tenth day of protests in Iran since the death of Mahsa Amin on September 16, we offer a selection of films to better understand the situation of women in the country, through the prism of cinema and fiction.
On September 13, Moral police arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amin on charges of “improper clothing” following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amin, who caught fire in Iran on September 13 and died three days later. Ten days of demonstrations across the country and in major cities sparked anger among Iranian women against the country’s dress code and more broadly against the ultra-conservative regime of President-elect Ebrahim Rais. Islamic in June. 2021. and non-governmental organization Human Rights in Iran Listing the deaths of at least 54 demonstrators, including young women who immediately became symbols of this unprecedented uprising (Mahsa Amin, Hadis Najaf, Ghazaleh Chalabi, Hanane Qian…), here are some films that bear witness to the plight of women. country.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parono
Tehran 1978: Eight-year-old Marjan dreams of the future and dreams of being a prophet who will save the world. Pampered by modern and cultured parents, especially close to his grandmother, he anxiously follows the events that will lead to the revolution and the fall of the Shah’s regime. With the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the time of “revolutionary commissars” begins, who control dress and behavior. Marjane, who had to wear a veil, now dreams of being a revolutionary.
Jafar Panahi is offside
In Iran, women also love football, but they are not allowed in the stadiums. Before the match, he was arrested and handed over to the vice squad. However, this young girl refuses to give up. He uses every possible technique to see the match no matter what.
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Afrooz is the captain of Iran’s women’s futsal team. After 11 years of hard work, his dream comes true: Iran is in the finals of the Asian Nations Cup. But when she leaves for Malaysia, she learns that her husband forbids her to leave the country. In Iran, a woman must obtain permission from her husband to travel. Afrooz must then be able to convince her husband to let her go, surely…
Farewell Mohammad Rasulof
In today’s desperate situation in Iran, a young female lawyer whose license has been revoked is several months pregnant. She lives alone because her journalist husband lives in hiding. Hunted by the authorities and feeling like a stranger in his own country, he decides to escape…
Iranian woman by Negar Azerbaijan
Although Rana is a traditional woman, she is forced to drive a taxi without her family’s knowledge to pay off the debt that keeps her husband out of jail. By chance, she meets the rich and rebellious Adin, who is desperately waiting for a passport to leave the country and thereby escape a forced marriage. The two women help each other, but Rana doesn’t know that Adine is hiding a heavy secret…
Nights of Mashad by Ali Abbas
Iran 2001 A journalist from Tehran dives into the worst suburbs of the holy city of Mashhad to investigate a series of femicides. He will quickly realize that the local authorities are in no rush to solve the case. These crimes will be the work of a single man who claims to cleanse the city of its sins by raiding prostitutes at night.
Source: allocine
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