I Am Forough

Directed by Jahangir Kosari

With Baran Kosari, Setareh Pesyani, Babak Karimi, Fatemeh Naghavi and Milad Rahimi

Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre, and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be a 'window through which we see ourselves sing, shout and cry'.