As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they...
During the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022, Anahita in NYC and Yalda in Tehran face their fears by going to a protest, and connect across the world with a photo that brings them hope for a better tomorrow.
Ahlam, a Lebanese painter in financial straits, strives to get her artist visa extended so she can stay in New York City. Hoping to improve her circumstances, Ahlam takes a job delivering a parcel upstate. But the parcel opens a Pandora's Box, sparking the emergence of various characters with...
The Girl sitting Here tackles the culture of sexual violence against women in the Middle East as we follow Bahar getting pushed to into a temporary marriage.
