Zar Amir Ebrahimi, the first Iranian to win a Best Actress Palme d?Or at Cannes
The Iranian-born actor and director, who won Best Actress at Cannes in 2022 for her role as a journalist hunting a killer in Holy Spider, on the beauty and consolation of her homeland and her hopes for a new generation of women there
My favourite place in Tehran
Zahir-od-Dowleh Cemetery is a private cemetery in the north of Tehran. Many cultural figures are buried there, including Forugh Farrokhzad, a female poet I adore and admire. She was a modernist, very brave, but died in an accident in 1966 before she was 30. She made a very interesting movie that was the beginning of the nouvelle vague in Iranian cinema. Very few people can reach the cemetery, as it?s not public, but some who admire the poet sit there at the weekends reading her poetry. The cemetery belongs to my family, so I used to go there in sad moments and I would always find a good feeling. I miss it. What reminds me of home
Jasmine. The scent is stronger in Iran than anywhere else. And borage, a very beautiful tea, which has a fruit whose odour is very strong and reminds me of springtime. I also miss the rain. Tehran is a dusty city, and when it?s raining wonderful smells come out of the dust.
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