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Starless Dreams(رویاهای بدون ستاره)

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Iran · 2017
1h 16m
Director Mehrdad Oskouei
Starring
Genre Documentary

This gentle, honest documentary takes the viewer within the walls of an Iranian center of correction and rehabilitation for women. The women talk about their crimes—drugs, bank robberies, assault—with playfully disarming honesty. The camera is at once intimate and respectful, and the resulting portraits are complex and full of dignity.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

Starless Dreams (Royahaye Dame Sobh), shot in a juvenile correctional facility for girls under the age of 18, is the perfect example of how powerful simplicity can be, when it’s underpinned by compassion for its subject.

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

Starless Dreams is a fascinating and humane view of the marginalised and forgotten. The girls' voices rise as a startlingly powerful chorus, questioning, challenging and demanding we listen.

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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

What distinguishes Starless Dreams is Oskouei’s voice, heard from off screen, getting these girls to be honest about where they’ve come from and why they’re less than anxious to return.

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Variety by Scott Tobias

With the conceptual rigor and emotional directness associated with the best of Iranian cinema, Oskouei simply listens to the stories of those who have never been listened to before. Their shattering testimony, elegantly harmonized in a chorus of stolen childhood, has universal appeal.

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Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

These young women have already witnessed enough horror to last a lifetime, and in this unforgiving society their lot seems unlikely to improve. A grim but necessary watch.

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