Director | Maryam Tafakory
Script | Maryam Tafakory
Editing | Maryam Tafakory
Sound designer | Stefan Smith, Maryam Tafakory
Composer | Stefan Smith
Producer | Leonardo Bigazzi
Production company | Maryam Tafakory
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
About the director:
Maryam Tafakory, born and raised in Iran, works with film and performance. Solo screenings/exhibitions of her work include: MoMA, New York; BOZAR, Brussels; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Academy Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; and LUX London among others. Selected group events include: Tate Modern, London; Cannes’ Directors Fortnight; New York Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; BFI London Film Festival; Villa Medici, Rome; HKW Berlin; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and Anthology Film Archives, New York. She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival; the Tiger Short Award at the 51st Rotterdam IFF; the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival; and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival. She was nominated for the 2024 Jarman Award.