THE DAY I BECAME A WOMEN (Roozi ké zan shodam)
by Marzieh Meshkini, Fiction, 78', 2000, 35mm, IRAN
With Fatomeh Tcheraghakhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shabnam Toluoi.

Three stories: in the first a 9 year old girl tries to stay free despite the customs and the weight of tradition. In the second, a young wife also tries to gain some new freedom, but her husband, her brothers and the people around her stand in her way. In the third, an elderly woman wants to make her dreams come true, she is on her own, but she decides to go to all way to the end… « These women are in a certain way confined to their houses, not because they are not loved, but because people want to protect them from the outside world. » (Marzieh Meshkini).

MARZIEH MESHKINI
Marzieh Meshkini was born in 1969 in Teheran. After having studied cinema during two years at the Mohsen Makhmalbaf school. She then works as assistant director in La Pomme (1998) and Le Tableau noir (2000) by Samira Makhmalbaf and Le Silence (1997) as well as La Porte (1999) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Le Jour où je suis devenue femme is her first feature film, followed by Chiens égarés in 2005.