فردا میبینمت الینا
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2011 • Iran
My daughter, Baran's childhood in the 1980s coincided with the Iran-Iraq war and the bombardment of large Iranian cities such as Tehran. Terrifying sleepless nights were followed by the next morning’s involvement in daily life which had to go on. Every morning when I took Baran to nursery school I used to wonder how the kids could bear this amount of stress during the day and the hours that they are away from us parents. The curiosity stayed with me for years for knowing what effects will the reflection of social circumstances have on children, and how Mahnaz, the caring principal of the nursery school would answer the endless questioning by children who don’t know the meaning of violence. In February 2011, after twenty odd years, I went to see Mahnaz and her nursery school with my camera. These days happened to coincide with the Iranian people’s demonstrations against the presidential election results of 2010 and the children who witnessed the violence and clashes of those days.
توران خانم
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • 2018 • Iran
Touran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School, the Children's Book Council, and the Encyclopedia for Young People. She was also actively involved with close to 20 other institutions dealing with child d...
روزگار ما
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2001 • Iran
Rakhshan Banietemad decides to capture images of people involved in the presidential elections of 2001 in Iran. She follows some young cinema actors and artists, including her young daughter, who with lots of hopes and desires for future hav...
ما نیمی از جمعیت ایرانیم
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2009 • Iran
The Women Rights Activists of Iran, consisting of a vast spectrum with different points of view, pose their questions to the 10th presidential candidates of Iran, three of which discuss their opinions. Ahmadinejad, the preside...
