Unveiled/Unverschleiert

The films of Rakhshan Banietemad
 

February 2022
Filmmuseum Wien
Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Wien

Rakhshan Banietemad (b. 1954) is usually dismissed as "one of the premiere international female directors" or the "First Lady of Iranian Cinema." A recent retrospective at a prestigious US venue introduced her as the "embodiment" of a certain progressive trend in Iranian cinema: the country's "surprising number of women directors." All of the above might be true, but only if we first accept a series of ideological prejudices and neglect a simpler set of facts: Rakhshan Banietemad is one of cinema's premiere explorers of social issues and one of its most subversive artists.

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