Mania Akbari Interview: Beauty and Aggression

Meet Mania Akbari, who is considered one of the most controversial filmmakers in Iran due to the themes she deals with, such as infidelity and homosexuality. Here she reflects on how something poetic can be found in even the fiercest dictatorship. Akbari ponders on how it is possible that the “romantic and sensitive soul of poetry” can exist alongside an aggressive dictatorship such as that in Iran: “It is possible that the voice coming out of my country, Iran, is a very aggressive voice, but there are als