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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Day I Became a Woman, it uses an intimate, humane Iranian setting to examine girls’ constrained freedom, with simple storytelling that lets social pressures emerge through everyday life.
02
Why this pick
Its spare, episodic journey through a marginalised Iranian Kurdish community shares Marzieh Meshkini’s poetic realism, social attentiveness, and compassion for people negotiating restrictive circumstances.
03
Why this pick
A tense, closely observed day in Tehran, it similarly centres women navigating rules that narrow their choices, turning ordinary movement through the city into quietly urgent drama.
04
Why this pick
It shares the film’s clear-eyed focus on Iranian women pushing against arbitrary gender restrictions, but balances frustration with lively camaraderie, humour, and an accessible real-time momentum.
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Why this pick
This interconnected portrait of Iranian women seeking autonomy echoes the original’s multiple female perspectives, while offering a more dreamlike, visually composed blend of personal and political pressure.
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01 / THE STORY
The film tells three different stories about women struggling for identity in Iran.
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