Stories of Iran’s past and present intersect in Rakhshān Banietemad’s reflective, absorbing and personal portrait of how political life shapes infant’s lives.
Banietemad’s daughter Baran was a young child in the 1980s when Iran and Iraq were engaged in a long and bloody war. Tehran was one of the many Iranian cities bombarded by Iraqi munitions. Taking her to school each day, o...
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the famil...