„Tales“ is the story of world’s men and women’s lives that always have to fight for getting their rights: filmmakers, workers, intellectuals, state employees, social workers, etc. Will the light of love and hope lighten their lives?
Rakhshān Banietemad was born in 1954 in Tehran, Iran. She is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter. She is widely considered a premier female director, and her films have been praised at international festivals as well as being popular with Iranian critics and audiences. Her title as “First Lady of Iranian Cinema” is not only a reference to her prominence as a filmmaker, but also connotes her social role of merging politics and family in her work
