Shirin Neshat Movies
- 2009
Women Without Men
Women Without Men6.42009HD
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden,...
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Venice 70: Future Reloaded5.22013HD
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...
- 2013
Illusions & Mirrors
Illusions & Mirrors6.92013HD
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...
- 2018
The Carnival is Over
The Carnival is Over7.752018HD
Artist Shirin Neshat explains the film: "I was interested in how female singers are universally treated as objects of desire. At first, Cate looks...
- 2022
Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams4.6672022HD
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...
- 2017
Looking for Oum Kulthum
Looking for Oum Kulthum62017HD
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...
- 2016
Roja
Roja02016HD
Roja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect...
- 2020
Body of Truth
Body of Truth6.62020HD
Four female artists have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using their most...
- 2002
Tooba
Tooba02002HD
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...
- 2011
Axis of Light
Axis of Light02011HD
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...
- 2000
Fervor
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Two-channel video installation by Shirin Neshat
- 2003
Possessed
Possessed6.52003HD
In Possessed, a seemingly mad woman in an Islamic village evokes questions of social acceptability.
- 2005
Zarin
Zarin22005HD
The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium....
- 1998
Turbulent
Turbulent7.31998HD
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...
- 2019
Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams02019HD
This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.
- 2016
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...
- 2001
Passage
Passage02001HD
Produced in collaboration with the American musical composer Philip Glass, Neshat’s narrative follows a procession of men as they carry a body...
- 2019
The Colony
The Colony02019HD
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...
- 1999
Rapture
Rapture61999HD
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...
- 2023
The Fury
The Fury02023HD
In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic...