Join us for a screening of Sierra Urich's Joonam, followed by a Q&A session with the Director at Central Stage on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 3:00 PM (Pacific). This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University, Diaspora Arts Connection, the Iranian American Bar Association, and the Iranian American Women's Foundation.
About the film: Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far removed from Iran, the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat. Only knowing Iran through family stories, food, and holidays, and with the prospect of travel to the country a seemingly impossible dream, she embarks on a personal quest to make sense of her fractured Iranian identity. Navigating barriers of language and culture (not to mention the complications of geopolitical conflict and displacement), Sierra turns to Mitra and Behjat to construct a deeply moving and sometimes disarmingly funny portrait of three generations of women and their complex relationship to an Iran of the past.
