Faravaz loves to sing, issuing rich, quavering vocals, no matter whether on a stage in a large formal theatre, over the shoulder of a loved one she’s embracing, or standing in front of the ice case at a fish market. But she’s from Iran, where women have been forbidden from singing in public since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. One day, she was arrested, and sentenced to a year in prison. In a documentary by Anna-Sophia Richard, Faravaz revisits that experience and explores her own identity and fem
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Faravaz loves to sing, issuing rich, quavering vocals, no matter whether on a stage in a large formal theatre, over the shoulder of a loved one she’s embracing, or standing in front of the ice case at a fish market. But she’s from Iran, where women have been forbidden from singing in public since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. One day, she was arrested, and sentenced to a year in prison. In a documentary by Anna-Sophia Richard, Faravaz revisits that experience and explores her own identity and fem
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