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The Day I Became a Woman (Persian: روزی که زن شدم, romanized: Roozi ke zan shodam) 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 festival awards during 2000.
In 1984, Iranian physician Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody lives a quiet, happy life in the United States with his American wife, Betty, and their young daughter, Mahtob. Moody tells Betty his family wants to meet her and Mahtob, and asks them to accompany him for a two-week visit to Iran.
Since the rise of the Iranian New Wave of Persian cinema, Iran has produced record numbers of film school graduates; each year more than 20 new directors, many of them women, make their debut films. In the last two decades, the percentage of Iranian film directors who are women has exceeded the percentage of women film directors in most Western ...
Nasrin is also a member of Iran Cinema House, where she mentors both men and women. Sogol Kheirandish, 30, dancer Sogol performs flow art at a park in northern Tehran on Jan. 20, 2022.
The film profiles the lives of four women living in Tehran in 1953, during the American-backed coup that returned the Shah of Iran to power. [3] The film was called "visually transfixing" by The New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, who added, "the film surpasses even Michael Haneke 's The White Ribbon in the fierce beauty and precision of ...
Iranian women rights activists determined education is a key for the country's women and society; they argued giving women education was best for Iran because mothers would raise better sons for their country. [100] Many Iranian women, including Jaleh Amouzgar, Eliz Sanasarian, Janet Afary, and Alenush Terian have been influential in the sciences.
Iran has launched a major new crackdown on women defying the country’s strict dress code, deploying large numbers of police to enforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves in public ...
The French foreign minister on Tuesday told broadcaster France 2: “I hail the courage of this young woman who demonstrated her resistance and turned herself into an icon for the women’s ...