WOMEN LIKE US WOMEN IN IRAN

Filmmaker Persheng SadeghVaziri returns to Iran after 20 years as an expatriate to present this intimate and revealing portrait of five ordinary Iranian women a nurse a journalist a rice farmer a religious college graduate and a piano teacher Against a backdrop of Islam revolution and war they share their views on the veil the relationship of Iranian women to the West and the longranging impacts of the 1979 Revolution on the status of women in their country What emerges is an image of Iran that resists easy classification a nation in flux at a unique historical moment still reeling from the residual effects of the IranIraq war but poised for a new future An important and timely look at contemporary Iran WOMEN LIKE US offers surprising insights into the changing role of women in the Middle East from a perspective that rarely makes it to international headlines