Description
Special Preview Screening!
Director Eran Riklis in person!
Followed by a book signing with Azar Nafisi!
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Based on Azar Nafisi’s best-selling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran stars Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly, Paterson) as a former professor at Tehran University who secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden classics of Western literature. As fundamentalists cement their grip on Iranian cultural and political life, the women remove their veils and speak about their intimate hopes, loves, disappointments, femininity, and search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and forge their own futures.
Winner of the Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for the female cast at the 2024 Rome Film Fest, Reading Lolita in Tehran also stars Zar Amir (Holy Spider) and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
This screening is made possible by the Ilex Foundation.
(Dir.: Eran Riklis, Italy/Israel, 2024, 108 min., DCP, English and Persian with English subtitles)
Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served–basis for patrons without tickets.
Image courtesy of Eran Riklis Productions
Cost
Free. Register in advance (recommended)
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Accessibility & Accommodations
Assisted listening devices, Captioning, Wheelchair accessible
