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This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Layla Mohammadi, foreground left, and Niousha Noor in a scene from "The Persian Version." (Yiget Eken/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)As vividly as Maryam Keshavarz portrays the country of her heritage, she is unable to return there — her first feature, "Circumstance," about sexual desire between two girls in Iran, won her her first audience award at Sundance but also got her banned from the country.
Originally published at The Associated Press