Questions for My Aunts
Rahmati Elham
Questions for My Aunts is a short documentary featuring a candid conversation between the artist and her mother, aunts, and grandmother in Iran. Through reflections on the deeply contested issue of hijab—from the 1979 Revolution to the 2022 Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement—the work explores personal belief, society, and women’s everyday negotiations with power.
Production Year
2025
Duration
00:30:37
Tyyppi
Asiasana
apparel, documentary films, equality, family life, gender roles, human rights, islam, Islamic culture, media art, muslims, religion and religions, woman's status, women
Original Title
Questions for My Aunts
English Title
Questions for My Aunts
Production Countries
Iran,Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elham Rahmati (Author), Arash Alipour (Cinematographer), Elham Rahmati (Director), Uzair Amjad (Editor), Elham Rahmati (Script), François Yazbeck (Sound Design), Mahnaz Shahriari (Actor), Elham Rahmati (Actor), Farahnaz Shahriari (Actor), Golnaz Samadi Samadi (Actor), Maryam Shahriari (Actor), Behnaz Shahriari (Actor), Mehri Shahriari (Actor), Zahra Zargandeh (Camera Assistant), Ghazal Shahriari (Camera Assistant), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Funder)
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Elham Rahmati is a visual artist based between Helsinki and Tehran. She is the co-founder/co-editor of NO NIIN Magazine. Elham holds an MA in Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and an MA in Visual Culture, Curating, & Contemporary Art from Aalto University. Her artistic work engages with memory of the oppressed as a weapon, asking how this resilient memory can enable continued creation, resistance, and the preservation of lived histories, even as oppression confuses, numbs, and pressures individuals into internalizing the worldview of oppressors.