LIFEJOURNEY

Kelok 9 West Sumatera, Indonesia.

Araghe Sard (Cold Sweat) an Iranian film brought me here.  Based on real events Araghe Sard shows us Afrooz’s struggle against the Iranian legal system. She is the captain of Iran’s national women’s futsal team. After 11 years of effort and hard work, she achieves her dream, Iran is in the final of the Asian Nations Cup. They have to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to play the match, but she is detained at the airport.  Under Iranian law, no woman may leave the country without her husband’s permission, and Afrooz’s husband has used his legal right to prevent her from leaving the country. Thus, begins her long, painful struggle to try to travel abroad in time to play the final. Her husband, a famous television presenter from whom she had separated unofficially a year earlier, seems determined to stop her. It is difficult to know whether he is doing this to get his revenge on her for the breakup, or simply because he cannot bear Afrooz being an emancipated woman pursuing he...

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