TIFF17 Interview: Sadaf Foroughi on her feminist coming-of-ager Ava

Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi discusses her Discovery Peogramme FIPRESCI winner Ava and making a feminist film. Winner of the FIPRESCI award for the Discovery programme, Sadaf Foroughi’s Ava follows the slow unravelling of a teenage girl’s life in Iran. Under the constant berating of her stepmother and the strict control of a ruthless school principal, … Continue reading TIFF17 Interview: Sadaf Foroughi on her feminist coming-of-ager Ava