Emotional divorce, deep-rooted social issue: Director Derakhshandeh

Iranian filmmaker Pouran Derakhshandeh who recently directed a film with a theme on “emotional divorce” says in an ifilm exclusive that such social issue has stayed alive for quite some time.

The female director disclosed to ifilm that “Emotional divorce has been present in our society for a long time but considering the situation all the problems used to be tolerated and we believed that this is the way it is and life should go on.

Referring to emotional divorce cases, she noted that “It’s been a few years that the issue of emotional divorce and couples ignoring each other in married life doesn’t end up in quarrels or divorce.”

Derakhshandeh is a director who is always concerned with social issues, so she decided to make the movie ‘Under the Smoky Roof’ on emotional divorce.

Pouran Derakhshandeh is an Iranian script writer, producer and director who graduated from the Advanced School of Television and Cinema in 1975.

She began working for the national broadcaster as a documentarian, producing over 30 short films and documentaries about subjects such as the plague, recession, drug addiction, smuggling, traditional ceremonies, music from different parts of Iran, handicrafts of Kurdistan, the mineral springs of Haraz, thread, silk and wool, among others.

As the first female filmmaker following Iran’s Islamic Revolution, she made her directorial debut with ‘The Relationship’ in 1986. The film went on to win an award from the Italian Giffoney film festival.

She has directed many movies since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution among which, many of them won awards and nominations in various national and international film festivals.

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