Docunight Presents: Iranian Women's Stories
Four documentaries, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, embody the adopted slogan of the current protest movement: Woman, Life, Freedom

A lonely and bitter French bookseller living in Mexico mourns and is haunted by the death of his lover until he finds a maths journal with a metaphysical formula that may allow him to bring her back while getting involved with the woman who sells him the book.
Four documentaries, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, embody the adopted slogan of the current protest movement: Woman, Life, Freedom
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