Forouzan Jamshidnejad: “I was embodying a mentality, a structure that turns women from agents of change into instruments of oppression.”
Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a man who murdered 16 female sex workers under a religious pretext of ‘cleansing’ his city of sin, I recently (finally) watched the often brilliant Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, released back in 2022. The film follows a fictional journalist, Rahimi (played by Zar Amir Ebrahimi), who […]