My Stolen Planet

Born during the Islamic revolution, Sharifi resists the socio-political and cultural control imposed by the state apparatus and feels she must lead a double life in order to survive. My Stolen Planet proposes a reading of the everyday and of private memory as forms of political dissidence. The chronicle of seemingly ordinary activities in the director's life, though many areforbidden— refusing to wear the hijab, meeting friends, dance parties, card games, exchanging intimate letters with an immigrant female intellectual, talking to her mother— is interwoven with fragility and strength with the documentation of Iranian women's public protests against the violence they have been subjected to since 1979.