Solmaz Panahi

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

A portrait of the Panahi family's matriarch as the pandemic makes it more difficult for intergenerational connection.

Jafar Panahi sets out to find a Kurdish young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.