Italy 2026 | 100 mins | Cert: NR | Director: Raha Shirazi
Tracing four generations of resistance, A War on Women uncovers the hidden history of Iranian women’s struggle against the Islamic Republic, revealing how decades of courage and defiance built an enduring movement for freedom. Centring the voices of those who choose not to remain silent in the face of systemic oppression, A War on Women reveals how women have remained the primary target of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to control public life, political participation and bodily autonomy. Yet each generation has transformed repression into renewed resistance, passing strength, knowledge, and defiance from one to the next. Historical, personal, and urgently contemporary, the film offers an intimate and nuanced portrait of a country often misunderstood while illuminating the extraordinary courage behind one of the world’s longest-running feminist movements.
