Golshifteh Farahani with her parents picnicking outdoor for Sizdah Be-dar

Despite many protests in Iran over the years, she feels "this time it's different". Her peers were afraid and traumatized by the revolution of 1979 and the war with Iraq in the 1980s but the youth on the streets today do not carry that baggage, she said. "We were afraid, but they aren't scared, they aren't ashamed," she said.