The Day I Became a Woman (Roozi ke zan shodam) by Marziyeh Meshkini

The Day I Became a Woman is the first and highly influential movie of the young Iranian director Marziyeh Meshkini. The film consists of the stories of three Iranian women in the “bloom” of their lives. Little Havva wakes up one morning and is told that she has become a woman; she won’t be able to play with boys anymore. She takes up this challenge like a fairytale character. Ahoo is passionate about participating in a bicycle race, and resists her husband and his family who try to dissuade her. Old Hoora buys everything she has ever wished for with the money she has inherited. On a beach, she keeps searching for 97 the missing thing out of all her belongings. These three women, whose paths cross, create a fracture within each other’s past and future. The Day I Became a Woman refers both to the cyclical and the renewable nature of being a woman within a traditional society, and opens a space for dreams and rebellion in a social order where desires and social expectations clash.

April 7, Friday, 19:00 SALT Galata