Cannes 2025: "Women and Child", the Last Slam of the Festival Comes From Iran!

Signed Saeed Rustaee, this Iranian masterpiece, in the form of a portrait of a woman who struggles in adversity, upsets and holds the rope for the Golden Palm.

For his second selection in competition in Cannes, Iranian Saeed Rustaee tells in "Woman and Child" the story of a woman raising her two children alone and hesitant to re-make her life. A film that unfortunately takes the road of the outrageous melodrama 3 years ago, Iranian Saeed Rustaee was selected for the first time in Cannes with Leila的s Brothers, a film that showed in an implacable way, not without a narration sometimes a little too demons…

Large Screen is back on the Croisette for the Cannes 2025 Festival. And it's time to talk about Woman and Child, the new film by Saeed Rustaee, director of The Law of Tehran and Leila and his brothers. What is the responsibility of the cinema critic? If we avoid giving [...]

Sinan Mohebi and Parinaz Izadyar in "Women and Child", by Saeed Rustaee. DIAPHANA DISTRIBUTION Two days after discovering the new film by Iranian Jafar Panahi, A simple accident, a moral work, both of refusal and of combat, that sanctioned the dearly recognizable freedom to move outside its borders, here comes, with Woman and Child, the fourth feature film by his young and talented compatriot, Saeed Rustaee. At 35, this one embodies a type of ci…