Meshkini, Marzieh, Akhar, Fatemeh Cherag, Nebhan, Hassan, Passand, Ameneh, Sisizadeh, Shahr Banou, Toloui, Shabnam	...	(Director)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Marzieh Makhmalbaf	...	(Writer)
Fatemeh Cherag Akhar	...	Hava
Hassan Nebhan	...	Hassan
Shahr Banou Sisizadeh	...	Mother
Ameneh Passand	...	Grandmother
Shabnam Toloui	...	Ahoo
Sirous Kahvarinegad	...	Husband
Mahram Zeinal Zadeh	...	Osmann
Norieh Mahigiran	...	Rival Cyclist
Azizeh Sedighi	...	Hoora
Badr Iravani	...	Young Boy
Mohamad Ahmadi	...	Cinematographer
Ebrahim Ghafori	...	Cinematographer
Maysam Makhmalbaf	...	Film Editor
Shahrzad Pouya	...	Film Editor
Abbas Rastegarpour	...	Sound Department
Behroz Shahamat	...	Sound Department
Rouhollah Baradari	...	Production Manager
Mohammad Reza Darvishi	...	Composer
Akbar Meshkini	...	Art Director
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb	...	Assistant Director
Pouyan Tayefeh	...	Assistant Director

Comments: DME 118

Summary: "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman." Simone De Beauvoir's exquisite pronouncement on the social construction of gender in her Second Sex (1949) spoke to generations of women, and of a universal truth beyond countries and cultures. As an example of astonishing visual poignancy, "The Day I became a Woman" is the globally celebrated debut of Marziyeh Meshkini, a young Iranian filmmaker bringing her rich and diversified national cinema to bear on an enduring global concern, in a new crescendo of memorable subtlety and grace. "The Day" is repeated in three consecutive episodes-the memorial registers of childhood, adolescence, and old age-when three stages of "becoming" a woman is culturally manufactured and socially registered. Between Simone De Beauvoir and Marziyeh Meshkini, generations of women (and men), from all cultures around the world, will have much to learn and even more to achieve.