Starless Dreams

Teenage girls at the Iranian "Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre" discuss their troubled lives in this Berlinale prize-winning doc.

"The young female inmates of a Tehran detention facility find more support in each other’s company and in the attention of a respectful filmmaker than they ever expect to find outside prison walls. Under no illusions about the nature of the world that has brought them to this place, their often fatalistic perspectives are delivered with vitality, defiance and surprising playfulness. Filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei has exercised extraordinary patience in securing permission to film in the facility and winning the trust of his subjects. The outcome may be the most richly peopled and unshakeable documentary of the year." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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