Iran veiled Appearances, Fundamentalism vs. Modernism (DVD)

Synopsis:

Iranian culture today, is not quite as idyllic as the nation's Islamic fundamentalist government want the rest of the world to believe. In this political documentary (Iran, Veiled Appearances) the director attempts to redefine Western (primarily United States') preconceptions of the powerful Middle Eastern country by presenting the two main opposing factions within Iranian society: the current Islamic leadership and its supporters of the 29-year-old Revolution versus the repressed younger generation espousing their own form of revolution -- democratic reform.

As the theocratic power elite struggles to maintain control over the hearts and minds of the nation's citizenry, the government's dissenters engage in simple, yet groundbreaking, acts of civil disobedience that could very well result in imprisonment, torture, or death or any combination of the three.

“Iran veiled appearances” shows a culturally and socially fractured society. The filmmaker’s eye has viewed the country from many angles and created a multifaceted film, in image of a country where the religious fervour of some contrasts with the desire for freedom of others.