Filmmaker Sahar Zand vividly explores the ongoing struggle women face at the hands of Iranian morality police — like living as second-class citizens with no right to travel, divorce or wear their hair uncovered — and points to new hope as protests against this unfair treatment continue across the country and around the world. She urges us all to stand in solidarity with the fight for “Woman, Life, Freedom” and shows why hope is so dangerous to authoritarian regimes.

Foto di Nirmal Rajendharkumar