Since the 1979 revolution, women in Iran have been banned from singing solo. So what happens when filmmaker Ayat Najafi’s sister decides to stage an all-female concert?
Young composer Sara Najafi wants to organize a concert to bring back to the Iranian public the beauty of the female voice. Met by stern negativity and opposition by Iranian officialdom, she goes ahead anyway and invites singers Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi from Paris to join her Iranian singers in Tehran for her public evening of song. A cultural expose and a musical journey that revives the female voice inIran.
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