Cannes Watch: Iranian Film Explores Divorce, Female Style

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Thu, 05/21/2015 - 4:50am

Writer-director Ida Panahandeh has made a splash with her film debut, landing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival for "Nahid," fraught portrait of the byzantine legal complications and social stigmas concerning divorce and remarriage in Iran. … Click to Continue »

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