film:The day I became a Women 

Director:Marzieh mesh kini 

The day I became a women is a iranian film.The film tells three episodes and each one tells the story of three womens at a defferant  stages of her life- Involving a girl on the edge adolescence,a wife not to be ruled over by her husband and a wealthy widow who declares ''what ever I never had I will busy for myself now .These three stories told in direct and simple terms.  

The first story is about Hava,(Fatemeh cherag akhar) a girl on her ninth birthday .As a child she has played freely with her best friend , a boy.As a birthday gift Hava's parents has brought her a Chador, but on this day she must to wear the chador., the garment that protects her head and body from the sight of men. And she can no longer play with boys.Hava refuses to understand what is supposed to have suddenly happend to her life overnight.Her transition to woomenhood change her everything According to her religion ,today she is a women,and must obey societies rules.Her mother (shahrbanu) and grandmother (amenah pasand)give her a reprieve, until  noon.they put an stick on the ground and tell her that when its shadow disappears,her girlhood is over.And parents forbid to play wih her boy friend (Hassan). 

The second episode is Ahoo's(ShabnamToloui)  married life . She is taking part in a cycling race.her husband persuade her to stop cycling and come home.It begins with an image of a group of women,all cloaked from head to toe in black, furiously pedal their bycicle down a road next to the sea. a ferocious man on horseback pursues one of the women, Ahoo who is in the lead .This is a women's bycicle race ,.Husband shouts at her, at first with solicitude( she should not pedal with her bad leg)and then with threats (a bike like is "the devil's mount,",and he will divorce her)  .She pedals on as the husband is joined by other family members,who finally stop her forcibly. 

The third story is about Hoora ,(Mahram zeinal zedah) An elderly widow who has inherited a great deal of money. It is a "silent comedy" episode. As a young boy pushes a wheelchair  containing an old women Hoora , Who is alert a bird. She directs him to stories when she is buys things- a refrigerator, Tv, Tables, and chairs-and soon she is at the head of aparade of boys pushing carts filled with cunsumer goods,  She inherted a lot of money and plants to spend it while she can , on all the things she couldn't buy    while she was married . As she floats out to a waiting ship , free from the bonds of womenhood, , She is watched two of the young women from the bicycle race, and Hava, now wearing her Chador . The story concludes with a felliniesque image I will not spoil for you. 

The title of Meshkini's film refers to the first story.These three stories say a lot about female experience with in  iranian society. however images and sound are used in this film bring us closer to the realities of the women's lives.It gives us snapshots , clear cut situations involving problems that we in the west are hardly aware of it. Marzieh meshkini has chosen tree females to depict in  her film, in order to portriat of the of the life circumstances of iranian women. They are three stories of equal significance, which are not interconnected in terms of content, but whose narratives have certain points in common.