In the Shadows of Silent Women – ایرانه خانم

I come from a war-torn family. My parents were forced to leave their city during the Iraq-Iran war and their family settled in different cities in Iran and the world.
I was born in the middle of the war, so I never experienced family gatherings. That’s why I started a journey to find my roots as an Iranian woman in this project, I drove more than 50 thousand kilometres in different parts of Iran to find women who live in intertwined communities. A journey into the history of Iranian women’s life, which is a combination of tradition and patriarchy, and at the same time, linguistic and cultural diversity. Women who, despite the limitations, with solidarity and interweaving in women’s groups strive for the freedom and education of their children and at the same time, they want to preserve their ancestral identity ...