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The Persian Version review – feelgood Iranian-American comedy with edge

A perceptive and candid look at mother-daughter discord drives the boisterous energy of Maryam Keshavarz’s comic crowdpleaser

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024

‘I felt an urgent need for empathy’: the Iranian-American director uniting her two cultures in film

‘I felt an urgent need for empathy’: the Iranian-American director uniting her two cultures in film

After 9/11, Maryam Keshavarz realised she wanted to change the way Muslims were portrayed in the US media. She explains why she drew on her childhood for her award-winning new film

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024

The Persian Version review – Iranian-American family comedy cranks up the charm

The Persian Version review – Iranian-American family comedy cranks up the charm

Maryam Keshavarz’s semi-autobiographical film cranks up the charm and uses flashbacks to revel in the 80s and examine the different world of 1960s Iran

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024

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Persian Version's "playful" sexuality

Maryam Keshavarz tells Salon how she created a comedy that mixes generational trauma, gender questions and more

Salon · Oct 26, 2023

Movie Review: 'Persian Version' finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women

In the autobiographical “The Persian Version,” Maryam Keshavarz chronicles a young woman's struggle to reconcile two identities: her Iranian heritage and her current American life as an aspiring filmmaker who longs to be an Iranian Martin Scorsese

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2023

'A Thousand and One' and 'Going to Mars' win top prizes at Sundance

As part of its first in-person event in three years, the Sundance Film Festival announced its awards on Friday. A.V. Rockwell's "A Thousand and One" took the grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition, while Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson's "Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project" won the…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 27, 2023

Iranian Women Take Center Stage at Sundance Film Festival

Movies by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home. "Joonam," a documentary about a three-generation family of Iranian women now living in Vermont, and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 23, 2023

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