Unveiled

Shot in a raw, semi-documentary style, filmmaker Angelina Maccrone's powerful drama is an emotional exploration of one woman's flight from persecution into something a bit more ambiguous, but nonetheless threatening. The minute her Teheran-to-Frankfurt flight leaves Iranian airspace, 29-year-old translator Fariba Tabrizi (Jasmin Tabatabai) finds another purpose for the black headscarf she's required to wear at home: She uses it to plug up the bathroom smoke detector, then lights up a highly forbidden cigarette. Fariba won't be needing her veils or head-covers ever again: She's leaving Iran for good. Fariba's liberation, however, is short lived, for she's arrested the...