Etemad, Rakhshan Bani, Adineh, Golah, Farshchi, Minoo, Kasraian, Mani, Kosari, Baran, Razavi, Atefeh	...	(Director)
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad	...	(Writer)
Golah Adineh	...
Minoo Farshchi	...
Mani Kasraian	...
Baran Kosari	...
Atefeh Razavi	...

Comments: DME 117

Summary: "Strong and heartfelt!" – LA WEEKLY "Subtle and intelligent!" – CHICAGO TRIBUNE ** Screened widely on the West Coast A delicate and sensitive family drama about a divorcée confronting contradictory desires – her own need for adult love and companionship and her ability to maintain a stable relationship with her only child. Successful documentary filmmaker Forough Kia is at a turning point. She’s involved with a doctor whom she cares for deeply. But her rebellious teenage son Mani resents the presence of another man in her life. As Forough interviews women from all walks of life for a television report on "the exemplary mother," she wonders where she fits in. This bold examination of the universal tension between motherhood, womanhood and professional life marked an important challenge to the social norms and cultural expectations of Iranian society in the late Nineties.