Shirin Neshat to Debut 'Women Without Men' at New Directors/New Films 2010

Directed by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari. WOMEN WITHOUT MEN, winner of the Silver Lion for best director at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Shirin Neshat's feature-film debut represents an assured shift from the gallery-based moving images for which she is known, to the grand screen of the cinema. Devotees of Neshat's earlier work will recognize her signature visual virtuosity and narrative grace in the story of four women in early 1950s Iran, played by Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, and Orsi Toth. Then as now, the ambitions and actions of these women from across the spectrum of Iranian society inform and affect the course of events-public, private, and often political. With history as a backdrop, and imagination extending the limits of lives lived under oppressive conditions, Neshat offers an exquisitely framed window onto these women's world. An Indiepix release. (ND/NF)

Indiepix will open WOMEN WITHOUT MEN on April 9th in select theaters in Los Angeles. The film will open in San Jose on April 23rd and Washington DC, and Houston, TX on April 30th with a platform release to select markets nationwide to follow.

ND/NF Screening Schedule

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 - 3.45pm - PRESS AND INDUSTRY SCREENING - MoMA Titus 2
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 - 6.15pm - Public Screening - MoMA
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 - 9.15pm - Public Screening - Film Socity of Lincoln Center

For more information on New Directors/New Films 2010, please visit http://www.newdirectors.org/2010/