“Some of the most high-profile movies about Iran in the past few years have all been directed or co-directed by women, including Shirin Neshat’s video-art shorts and feature Women Without Men, and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis. And the Iranian New Wave that’s livened up world cinema over the past 20 years has been notable for a string of strong feminist films, some of them directed by men.”