PERSEPOLIS

Marjane (Mastroianni) is an innocent nine-year-old living in Iran, surrounded by a loving but incredibly protective mother (Deneuve) and father (Abkarian). She finds comfort in the carefree spirit of her loving grandmother (Darrieux), as well as music by artists as diverse as ABBA and Iron Maiden. When Marjane's uncle is killed in the Iran/Iraq war, her parents send her to school in Austria, where she can study in safety. Eventually, she returns home to Iran to be closer with her family. But even though she settles into married life, the tyrannical pressures of Iranian society force her to abandon her country once again, sending her to France on another journey.