Dance Iranian Style

Dance Iranian Style (رقص به سبک ایرانی, Raghs be Sabke Irani) is a 2015 independent Dutch-Iranian feature mocumentary film written and produced by Nafiss Nia and directed by Farshad Aria. While fiction and non-fiction elements are interwoven throughout the film, the story is told through a film-within-a-film structure in which we see a documentary film crew follow Roya, an illegal refugee in the Netherlands, after her refugee claim was denied and she has entered an illegal life on the streets of Amsterdam. At its world première in September at the Cambridge Film Festival, Dance Iranian Style was described by the film critics as a surprising controversial film, calling it "a film that totally reframes the way in which stories are told" or "a film that reminds of Kiarosta