A powerful and provocative look at the seismology of the Iranian social order and the connective tissue that sustains Iranian women in particular, Women Without Men represents a very different kind of Persian cinema from that typically seen in the west—a cinema-in-exile rooted less in allegorical neorealism than a forthright magical realism. Whether micro-distributor Indiepix has the resources to exploit a picture of this type remains to be seen—in better times it would have been easy to imagine an October Films or even a New Yorker Films managing a fruitful platform release throughout the summer months. The current independent and foreign distribution vacuum, however, adds a layer of uncertainty as to whether audiences will have the time and opportunity to find the film.