Movies: Amina Maher

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers....

Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have Breasts about a couple, the young poet and writer Ava and her upper-class older husband Ashkan, who l...

After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut as a feature film director in 20 Fingers (2004), Abbas Kiarostami urged her to direct a sequel to th...

A daughter pushes at the bounds of her relationship with her mother as she unpicks the psychological consequences of the violence she suffered....

In search of the creation of an autonomous body, Amina Maher reveals her unspoken desires in the process of honest self-exploration, sharing the most private of moments and breaking silences with the help of a friend....

Living in the confinement of a shared apartment with her controlling mother, Narges is soon confronted with the traumatic situation that women face under patriarchy. A sensitive, brave account about womanhood in modern-day Iran....

I Look Like My Mother follows Amina Maher’s courageous journey to free herself from the constraints of norms, taboos and traditions. Her coming-out as a trans woman is her rebellious stand against rape culture and patriarchy, and her strong support f...