Akram, an illiterate Iranian woman, shows us that true talent will always refuse to be stifled and that you don’t need an education to understand, to feel, and to paint. / With a career spanning more than fifty years, Behjat Sadr is one of only a handful of women artists

Monir (2014) is a documentary about the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Farmanfarmaian pioneered new forms of geometric mirror works in the 1970s, creating an artistic language informed by traditional Iranian craft and her formative years spent in New York. The film explores a range of