Shab-Nameh: Women of Iran’s Forgotten Left (2026)
Director: Maryam Tafakory
In these two research-driven works, Tafakory draws on fragments from the archives of Iran’s final imperial years and the early post-revolutionary period. Blending textual traces, personal memory, and cinematic imagination, she brings to light what censorship and political repression have obscured. Rather than reconstructing the past, her poetic practice