OUR CATALOG
The Ladies Room
Zananeh
A film by Mahnaz Afzali, Produced by Hassan Poor-Shirazi & Mahnaz Afzali
Iran | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | DVD | Subtitled | Order No. 04846
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
“*** Recommended.”
“Never before have I been so surprised by a film’s candor and honesty. The Ladies’ is an amazing testament to Mahnaz Afzali’s restraint as a filmmaker as she steps into the background and lets these women, who are second-class citizens in Iran, be themselves- totally unrestrained and surprisingly progressive.”
“Mahnaz Afzali has produced a film that crosses any number of usually rigid boundaries…offers a rare opportunity for Afzali to document private conversations, and the privacy of the ladies room (off limits to men) offers the women themselves a public community.”
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Gene Siskel Film Center of Chicago
- Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA)
- Int’l Documentary Film Festival Munich
- Silverdocs Documentary Festival
- Pusan International Film Festival
- The Montreal Int’l Festival of New Cinema and New Media
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Born in 1964 in Tehran, Mahnaz Afzali is a well-known cinema and TV actress who has played in ten feature films and three TV series. She directed her first film, NO WITNESS, a documentary, in 2000. THE LADIES’ ROOM, released in 2003, was her second film and she also directed the 2006 documentary RED CARD. (07/12)
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