Shirin Neshat Movies

  • 2009
    Women Without Men

    Women Without Men

    Women Without Men

    6.42009HD

    Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden,...

    Women Without Men
  • 2013
    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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    Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • 2013
    Illusions & Mirrors

    Illusions & Mirrors

    Illusions & Mirrors

    6.92013HD

    ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an...

    Illusions & Mirrors
  • 2018
    The Carnival is Over

    The Carnival is Over

    The Carnival is Over

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    Artist Shirin Neshat explains the film: "I was interested in how female singers are universally treated as objects of desire. At first, Cate looks...

    The Carnival is Over
  • 2022
    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

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    Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to...

    Land of Dreams
  • 2017
    Looking for Oum Kulthum

    Looking for Oum Kulthum

    Looking for Oum Kulthum

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    A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the...

    Looking for Oum Kulthum
  • 2016
    Roja

    Roja

    Roja

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    Roja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect...

    Roja
  • 2020
    Body of Truth

    Body of Truth

    Body of Truth

    6.62020HD

    Four female artists have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using their most...

    Body of Truth
  • 2002
    Tooba

    Tooba

    Tooba

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    Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance to...

    Tooba
  • 2011
    Axis of Light

    Axis of Light

    Axis of Light

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    Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of...

    Axis of Light
  • 2000
    Fervor

    Fervor

    Fervor

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    Two-channel video installation by Shirin Neshat

    Fervor
  • 2003
    Possessed

    Possessed

    Possessed

    6.52003HD

    In Possessed, a seemingly mad woman in an Islamic village evokes questions of social acceptability.

    Possessed
  • 2005
    Zarin

    Zarin

    Zarin

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    The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium....

    Zarin
  • 1998
    Turbulent

    Turbulent

    Turbulent

    7.31998HD

    On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be...

    Turbulent
  • 2019
    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    02019HD

    This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.

    Land of Dreams
  • 2016
    Sarah

    Sarah

    Sarah

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    In Sarah, 2016, it is a forest environment that becomes a site of haunting; mysterious and unknowable. The protagonist Sarah is played by Sara...

    Sarah
  • 2001
    Passage

    Passage

    Passage

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    Produced in collaboration with the American musical composer Philip Glass, Neshat’s narrative follows a procession of men as they carry a body...

    Passage
  • 2019
    The Colony

    The Colony

    The Colony

    02019HD

    The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recording...

    The Colony
  • 1999
    Rapture

    Rapture

    Rapture

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    The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of...

    Rapture
  • 2023
    The Fury

    The Fury

    The Fury

    02023HD

    In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic...

    The Fury