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Tatami” follows the story of Leila, an Iranian judo athlete who faces political pressure from her government to fake an ...

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While this film is less focused on social issues than Roustaee’s previous work, the effects of Iran’s harsh patriarchal system are evident in how the story plays out. A woman and her child may ...

Watch on Deadline This move has drawn criticism from parts of the Iranian filmmaking community in the light of the Women Life Freedom movement calling for democracy for women in Iran, and Roustaee ...

Saeed Roustaee’s fourth feature is a setback for the gifted young Iranian director, who advocates for the rights of women, but shows a mother whose rash decisions inevitably make life worse for ...

Iranian director Saeed Roustayee is back in Cannes with “Woman and Child,” a female empowerment drama premiering in competition. The film follows a 40-year-old widowed nurse named Mahnaz ...

‘Woman and Child’ is scarcely a film about personal triumph, but as the chance of conventional assimilation into Iranian society is wrenched from Mahnaz, who then takes it upon herself to ...

This great big mess is what Woman and Child is all about, and although it is primarily a character study, Roustaee’s film is also a caustic comment on the patriarchal nature of Iran and the ...