October 12 – 14, 2024
* Jahangir Kosari will attend the screening
Synopsis:
“Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran’s greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society’s traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be a ‘window through which we see ourselves sing, shout and cry’.”
This docudrama is a reading of Forough Farokhzad’s intellectual life to maturity. Farokhzad is the most renowned female poet of Iran and one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the country in the 20th century. Baran Kosari stars as Forough in this docudrama to reimagine a woman’s courage in reciting feminine desires in her poetry and rehearsing freedom in public and private life at the expense of losing her child and her comfortable married life.
