| Description |
1 online resource (56 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online, volume 1 |
| Summary |
Filmed in a woman's restroom located in a public park in Iran's metropolitan center of Tehran, this documentary explodes Western stereotyping of women in Iran. The elder who runs the washroom offers a shoulder to cry on or tough love in a place where women, many of them especially marginalized because they are prostitutes, addicts or runaways, feel safe enough to remove their veils, and draw on cigarettes and their opinions on a wide range of subjects that men cannot hear them speaking about: sex, family abuse, relationships, drugs, religion, self-mutilation. The director (and admired actress) supplies the audience with an unflinching, detailed examination of the lives of the women who use the restroom as a gathering place |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014) |
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This edition in Persian (Farsi, Western) with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Women -- Iran -- Tehran -- Social life and customs
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Women -- Iran -- Tehran -- Social conditions
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social life and customs.
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Iran -- Tehran.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Afzali, Mahnaz, 1964- film director.
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