In today’s Tehran, the theater where a company is rehearsing the Aristophanic Lysistrata is disrupted by the wind of a large popular demonstration and the parallel repressive looming of riot forces.

“In September 2022, I traveled to Iran to work on another film, and suddenly I found myself in the middle of an uprising, a revolution that had already begun before the tragic death of Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of so called moral police. But her death was the beginning of a new era in Iran’s current history. It was a historic momentum that many people, including myself, had been waiting for for a long time. Many referred to it as the first feminist revolution in modern history. Be that as it may, today’s Iran and its young generation are at a point of no return.” [Ayat Najafi]