Overview

• The film opened across Spanish cinemas this week after completing a festival run that included Berlinale and Seminci.
• Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha were convicted in April of propaganda and obscenity charges and received 14-month prison terms suspended for five years plus a $14,000 fine.
• The directors continue to be banned from travel and filmmaking, completing post-production via Zoom under state surveillance.
• Despite these restrictions, the movie has won the Berlinale FIPRESCI Prize and was listed among 2024’s best films by outlets such as The Guardian.
• Centering on a 70-year-old widow who drinks, dances and removes her hijab in private, the story interrogates solitude, aging and women’s autonomy under Iran’s morality laws.