Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island (2013)

Simin Daneshavr was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3 different political regimes. She and her husband, (Jalal Al Ahamd) have been regarded as "Iranian Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre". But they had a very different fate. Simin's life is a mirror of what has happened to Iranian women through a century, from unveiling the hijab and playing important roles in the society to imposed hijab and staying at home in Islamic regime. This film is looking at her life through history of women movement in Iran.