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The success and hard work of the pioneering Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is an example that many women directors in Iran were following much before Samira made the headlines.

Later, the need to entertain a public hungry for cinema, forced the only state production and distribution foundation, Farabi, to let go of its monopoly and to encourage directors to raise their own funds.

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Women’s presence in the film industry as film-makers and producers has encouraged many Iranian women, whatever their social status, to take destiny into their own hands and fight for their rights, whether through film, art or real life.