Movie: Dancing for Change

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    Dancing For Change is a story about secular and socialist women of the Islamic world, their ideals, activism, and visions for a better world. It focuses on six Kurdish Iranian women from three different generations. These women live with their male comrades in a mountain camp.

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    2015-06-03

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