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- Title
Zinat: One Special Day (Film).
- Authors
Hutton, Deborah
- Abstract
This article reviews the motion picture Zinat: One Special Day, directed by Iranian director Ebrahim Mokhtari, which tackled social issues in Iran. Since the mid-1990s, contemporary Iranian film has received international acclaim for its employment of innovative cinematic techniques as well as its tackling of tough social issues. The social issue most compelling to U.S. audiences of Iranian cinema seems to be the status of women in Iran. By placing gender in the context of other issues, such as democratic reform, addresses the topic in particularly fulfilling ways. One can see what makes the documentary successful by contrasting it to an earlier feature film, a film by the same director, focusing on the same individual (Zinat Daryaie), and sharing a very similar name. Zinat Daryaie is a healthcare worker on the southern Iranian island of Qeshm in the Straits of Hormuz. A product of the local, traditional society of the island, Daryaie had been married for several years and bore several children before deciding to become a healthcare worker, at the age of 19. As Daryaie explains in voice narration accompanying the opening scenes of the film, few believed that an uneducated, married woman who wore a borgheh, the distinctive face veil of the region, could take up medicine.
- Subjects
IRAN; ZINAT (Film); DOCUMENTARY films; FILM reviewing; MOKHTARI, Ebrahim; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 2003, Vol 33, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Entertainment Review