In her 2009 film Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat tells the female story during the 1953 coup d’etat in Iran. The film, an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s 1990 novella, distills the political situation into a compelling story about a group of women whose parallel experiences lead them to the same location despite differences in class and lifestyle. Iran is often known in a romantic way as the ‘land of poetry.’ A lot of ancient poets are revered and praised for their universality, such as Rumi. But what about the universality of modern poets? And the work of non-men? After the screening of Shirin Neshat’s magical realist, and highly poetic, Women Without Men, we will have a poetry circle in the small foyer to read Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem I Pity the Garden. Regisseur Shirin Neshat Cast Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Orsolya Tóth, Arita Shahrzad, Bijan Daneshmand, Navid Navid, Ahmad Hamed Jaar 2009 Taal Farsi Ondertiteling English -- (Text and image)

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