Niloofar

Produced in 2008

Film Information

Festival Edition 2009 - Edition 9

Section Competition

Director Sabine El Gemayel

Country France / Iran / Lebanon

Duration 82 min

Language Persian (English subtitles)

Category Feature Competition 2009

Producer Bahram Dehghani, Jean Brehat, Rachid Bouchareb, Fereshteh Taerpour

Screenplay Sabine El Gemayel

Cast Mobina Ayandeh, Amir Aghai, Sadegh Safai, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Shahab Hosseini, Hengameh Ghaziani

Genre Drama

Synopsis

Niloofar is a thirteen-year-old Iraqi girl whose dream is to read and write in a village where education is only for boys. While assisting her midwife mother during a delivery, she meets a woman who allows her to secretly study. In the meantime, her father arranges her marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods and hides her womanhood from her community to pursue her dream. Until one day, the truth is revealed.

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Niloofar