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Our Times • Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2001 • Iran

While the first half of Rakhshan Banietemad’s Our Times centers on the people, mostly youths, involved in Iran’s 2001 presidential election, the second half of the film focuses on Arezu Bayat, a twice-divorced single mother who decides to run for president. In this provocative documentary, Arezu boldly challenges the norms set by her society and strives to create a life for herself and her family under the patriarchy. Despite a continuous string of trials, Arezu continues to rebel against gender inequality.
Banietemad takes images that have historically been associated with womanhood — such as folding clothes, making the bed, and preparing food -- and replaces them with the image of a woman who fights for freedom, gender equality, and women empowerment. Arezu becomes the real driving force of the film, and with her fiercely determined character she subverts and complicates the socially constructed definition of women.

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