Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.

An Iranian expat living in London has a shady past and an enigmatic present.

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An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how t...

Dona, Lukrecie and Tana - three women of different origins and destinies, whose stories unfold at di...

Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in...

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A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins ...
'Do I Love You?' is a romantic philosophical comedy about life and the questions it throws at you.

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