Women Without Men (2009) January 22, 2011

Set in 1953, just after a CIA-backed coup overthrew a democratically elected government and installed the Shah to power, Women Without Men traces the intersecting lives of Zarin, a prostitute who has fled the brothel in which she works; Munis, who is essentially held prisoner in her own home by her deeply religious brother; Munis's friend Faezeh, who shares the brother's faith, and dreams of marrying him; and Fakhri, a wealthy woman stuck in a unhappy marriage to a bullying military man.