Co-presented with the Global Film Initiative
The Day I Became a Woman
Marziyeh Meshkini. Iran. 2000. 78 min. 35 mm.
Three loosely connected short stories portray women in three stages of life—a young girl who is about to turn nine, the age of womanhood, when she will have to wear the chador and stop playing with boys; a young woman who enters a cycling race against the objections of all the men in her clan; an elderly woman who takes the biggest shopping trip in her life to buy all she has ever wanted. Stunningly shot on the free-trade island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, the film is written by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, husband of the filmmaker.
"Wonderful stories, great pieces of cinema and, above all, warmly human works."—Jamie Russell, BBC
“[A] stunner of a film."—Stephen Holden, New York Times
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