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"The day I Became A Woman"
(Rozi Ke Zan Shodam)

Director: Marziyeh Meshkini
Scriptwriter: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Director of photography: Ebrahim Ghafouri, Mohammad Ahmadi
Sound: Behrouz Shahamat
Music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Assistant Director: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Script Supervisor : Hana Makhmalbaf
Still photographer: Maysam Makhmalbaf, Hana Makhmalbaf
Editors: Shahrzad Poya, Maysam Makhmalbaf
Set Designer: Akbar Meshkini
Cast: Fatemeh cheragh Akhar..... Hava, Shabnam Toloui ..... Woman in second Episode Azizeh Sedighi ..... Old woman in third Episode
Production: Makhmalbaf Film HouseIRAN, 2000
78 Mins, 35 mm, color
For more information regarding this film please go to :
Makhmalbaf Website

   
SYNOPSIS:

This film is episodic and it consists of 3 stories about the women’s situation in Iran.
First story: Hava
One morning a small girl named Hava wakes up and notices that she has become a woman because she is now 9 years old and playing in the streets with the boys is considered a sin from that day on.
Hava cries and asks her grandmother to go to the street for one last goodbye with the boys.
Second story: Ahoo
This episode is about a young lady whom participates in the women’s bicycle race with her black traditional chador (veil) and her husband, while riding a horse, threatens to divorce her if she doesn’t get off the bicycle.
Third story: Houra
This episode is about an old woman whom has inherited some money during the last years of her life after years of poverty and now she has decided to spend all the money before she dies and to buy all the stuff that she always wished to buy during her life.

 BIOGRAPHY:  

Marzieh Meshkini born in 1969 in Tehran. She has learned Cinema in Makhmalbaf Film School for 8 years. She was as assistant director & stiil photographer of Mohsen & Samira Makhmalbaf's films.Her first film ‘The Day I Became a Woman”, (a 3-episode story) attended the Critics Week category in Venice International Film Festival in 2000 and won 3 awards from that festival. Marzieh Meshkini’s second film ‘Stray Dogs’ competed in the best film category at Venice Film Festival in 2003 and won two international prizes. She has collaborated in several films by Mohsen and Samira Makhmalbaf as assistant director and photographer.

FILMOGRAPHY

  • The Day I Became a woman 2000 Stray Dogs 2003
  • The Day My Aunt Was Ill 1997
  • Joy of Madness 2003

FESTIVALS:

  1. 15th.International week of film critics, Venice.(Italy .2000) Prize to the best first feature film assigned by the young jury of CINEMAVENIRE, Prize ISVEMA of 100,000,000 Italian lira of commercial promotion on the private televisions associated with Isvema itself, assigned by the jury of the national Syndicate of Italian Film Critics, for its: "poetical representation of woman condition in nowadays Iranian society", Prize CICT-UNESCO of the International Council of Cinema and Television within UNESCO has awarded its prize for the following motivation: "for its honesty and for the quality of vision on the woman condition in Iran"
  2. Toronto International Film Festival. (Canada. 2000)
    Winner of the Volkswagen Discovery Award
  3. Chicago International Film Festival.(USA.2000)
    Winner of the gold plaque for Best First Film
  4. Festival International Cinema Nouveaux Medias Montreal.(Canada.2000)
  5. Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada.2000)
  6. Pusan International Film Festival (Korea.2000)
    Winner of the Best Asian Film
  7. Films from the south Festival (Norway.2000)
    Winner of the Prize of the International Film Critics (FIPRESCI Prize)
  8. Sao Paolo International Film Festival (Brazil.2000)
  9. 44th London Film Festival (UK. 2000)
  10. Festival des Trois Continents (Nantes) (France, 2000).
    Winner of the Special Jury award and Special young Jury
    award and Golden Plaque of ville De Nantes
  11. Thesaloniki International Film Festival (Greece. 2000)
    Winner of the Best Director Award
  12. Novo Cinema International Film Festival (Belgium, 2001)
    Winner of the First prize
  13. Innsbruck International Film Festival (Austria, 2001)
    Cine Tirol Verleiher Preis
  14. Woman's International Film Festival in Seoul (Korea, 2002)
  15. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech, 2005)

  16. Art Gallery of New South Wales (1 – 19 August 2007/ Australia)

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