A War on Women is a documentary that reinterprets the 2022 Iranian uprising, not as a spontaneous uprising, but rather as the powerful eruption of a feminist resistance that has matured over the course of forty years. Whilst the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, which occurred whilst she was in the custody of Iran’s morality police, attracted international attention, the film goes further, bringing to light the long and often overlooked history of the struggle against the world’s only theocratic regime. From the first demonstrations against compulsory veiling in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution to the young women risking their lives on the streets today, the narrative weaves together the personal and political journeys of seven extraordinary protagonists.
