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Two Women. (1999 film) Two Women (Do zan) is a 1999 Iranian drama film written and directed by Tahmineh Milani. Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic, creating a portrait of traditions that conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their ...
Box office. $344,235 (USA sub-total) The Day I Became a Woman (Persian: Roozi ke zan shodam, روزی که زن شدم) is a 2000 award-winning Iranian drama film directed by Marzieh Meshkini. It tells three stories, each depicting a different stage in the lives of Iranian women. It premièred at the 2000 Venice Film Festival and won several ...
As of early 2007, nearly 70 percent of Iran's science and engineering students are women. [40] 27.1% female ministers in government put Iran among first 23 countries in early 2000s, [41] 2.8–4.9% female parliamentarians in past 15 years put it among least 25 countries. [42]
Noora Niasari’s delicately moving “ Shayda ” puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter. The violence happens ...
English. Persian. Budget. $13.2 million [1] Box office. $43 million. Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 American drama film based on the book of the same name, depicting the escape of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her abusive ex-husband in Iran. In 1990, the film was shot in the United States, Turkey and Israel, and the ...
Following the rise of the Iranian New Wave, there are now record numbers of film school graduates in Iran and each year more than 20 new directors make their debut films, many of them women. In the last two decades, there have been a higher percentage of women directors in Iran than in most countries in the West. [38]
Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), Iranian-born Swedish author, poet, aircraft pilot, and the second woman to earn a pilot's license to fly aircraft in Iran. Roza Montazemi, author of cookbooks. Granaz Moussavi, poet. Azar Nafisi (born 1948), writer, Reading Lolita in Tehran. Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946), novelist.
Occupation (s) Film director, producer, screenwriter, architect. Years active. 1980–present. Spouse. Mohammad Nikbin [1] Relatives. Ahmad Milani (father) [2] Tahmineh Milāni ( Persian: تهمینه میلانی; born 1960) is an Iranian feminist activist, and film director and producer.