The Color of Love

The Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz is studying for a year at a university in Iran, and making a documentary. Here she meets women who navigate around the country's strict restrictions, apparently without fear.

In 2003 she returned from the US to continue her exploration of modern Iranian society through the medium of documentary cinema. As we follow three couples timidly negotiating love during Nowruz, we learn that freedom is not always what we assume it to be and that love covers areas of human existence far vaster than we imagined.

Lasse Skagen

Director

Maryam Keshavarz (b. 1975) is an Iranian-American filmmaker. Her first feature film, Circumstance (2011), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. Her second feature film, Viper Club (2018), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and starred Susan Sarandon. Her latest film, The Persian Version (2023), premiered at Sundance, where it also won the Audience Award.

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