Film on Iranian women wins main award at docu fest

Be My Voice, a documentary about Iranian women's fight against the forced wearing of the hijab, has won the Amnesty International Slovenia Human Rights Film Award as the 25th Festival of Documentary Film in Ljubljana.

The 2021 film by Iranian-Swedish director Nahid Persson brings a story about Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist who has had to flee to the US, from where she now leads Iranian women in the fight for their rights. She has become the voice of millions of Iranian women who resist the hijab.

The jury hailed the film as a fusion of activism...