Artist Shirin Neshat's Looking for Oum Kulthum is a visually dazzling film-within-a-film about an Iranian artist-filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum Kulthum. Neshat's heroine, Mitra, struggles as she dares to cross lines in a conservative, male-dominated societyreflecting the obstacles faced by Neshat and Kulthum themselves.