Fahimeh Rahimnia

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.

Oppression is the first barrier between a woman and her personal desires and meanwhile, "the voice" speaks of suppression. The voice of boredom by which the wetness of their eyes and sleeves can be perceived.

Dans une petite ville sainte en Iran, un homme pieux vient de battre à mort son fils unique, Ali. Il se rend au mausolée du Saint pour confesser son crime. A la suite d'une dispute avec son père, Ali s'est enfui dans le désert. C'est là qu'il entend pour la première fois jouer du Nêy (flûte en roseau). Sa vie en est bouleversée. Le jeune adolescent veut se lancer dans la musique. Rejeté par son père pour qui cet art est un pêché, Ali part pour Téhéran. A l'école de musique, il rencontre un maître de Nêy et commence à apprendre à en jouer. Il fait également la connaissance de la belle Azar, jeune fille émancipée qui joue du daf (large tambourin), dans la salle d'à côté.

Khanoom is an episodic movie focusing on three women from three different social classes who has to suffer for the sake of their beloved men.

Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for this opposition, especially her father’s, is the fact that Saeid is a disabled veteran who is on the wheelchair. Zamane, who’s had enough of her family’s strict behavior, offers Saeid to run away with her and then get married, but he doesn’t accept that.