Mania Akbari Interview: Robber of Reality

Mania Akbari has made films that have upset the religious establishment in Iran, and as a result she lives in exile. But this has not prevented her from continuing to make her controversial films. Watch her talk about being a filmmaker in this extensive interview. “I think that painting is my father and the products of this father are cinema and video art.” Akbari started out as a painter, but found that she needed more space and possibilities in order to express the things she wanted to convey: “My sense