Women’s Prison
Manijeh Hekmat. Iran. 2002. 106 min. 35 mm.
Banned in Iran, this taboo-breaking film uses the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for Iranian society since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Covering a span of almost two decades, the film centers on the relationship between an inmate who is jailed for killing a violent stepfather and a warden who is at once stern and humane. As time goes, we see changes in Iranian society reflected in the microscopic world of one prison. Part of the Global Film Initiative’s Global Lens collection.
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