It is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and actresses have been important figureheads in the “Women, Life, Freedom” feminist uprising in Iran. For the country’s anti-modern theocratic regime, both cinema and women’s freedom of choice of attire represent everything that the Islamic regime stands against. After the 1979 Revolution, the first thing its ideologues did was target women’s appearance in public and in cinema.
Who’s afraid of Iranian Cinema? Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Film
