Top Iranian Filmmakers Strike A Blow For Women’s Rights And Democracy Movement
deadline.comThe winds of change are sweeping Iran as the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ protests, provoked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, continue.
Here, four Iranian disruptors talk about their struggles, their acts of solidarity for the pro-democracy movement, and their hopes for the future of their country.
Marjane Satrapi, who was 9 years old when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recalls taking to the streets with her politically active parents to protest against the imposition of the hijab. “My mum went to demonstrate, and I went too, and so did my dad,” recalls the graphic novelist and filmmaker. “He was one of the very few men; they didn’t understand at the time that women’s rights are society’s rights.” Satrapi’s parents sent her to Europe to study as a teenager and encouraged her to make her permanent home there.
Satrapi captured these experiences in the graphic novel series Persepolis, which she turned into an animated feature in 2007.
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