In Progress
Visualising Power, Documenting Resistance
Interview by Nina Somera
- Category: Women in Action 2009-3
- Author: Nina Somera
- Year: 2009
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Review
Persistently harrassed by the government, Iranian film maker Mahboubeh Abbasgolizadeh has found her mode of resistance in her craft. Her films have not only dealt with women who are oppressed by a fundamentalist regime. Behind the otherwise simple plots are real relations of power, that tells us much about Iran.