In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that 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. That explains why that the first thing that the ideologues targeted was women’s appearance in public and in cinema.
Who’s afraid of Iranian Cinema? Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Film
