MOVIES by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home.
“Joonam”, a documentary about a three-generation family of Iranian women now living in Vermont, and “The Persian Version”, a colourful but candid dramedy that hops between Iran and New York over several decades, received world premieres on Saturday.