Here is a film that won the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival in a year that was marked by all kinds of controversy in the Iranian calendar of events. What do Persian Cats tell us about how Iranians are viewed and view themselves? This is the question that our writers are exploring in these pages. [More...]
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