Reading Lolita in Tehran

Synopsis

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

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When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Golshifteh Farahani
  as Azar Nafisi
• 
  Zar Amir Ebrahimi
  as Sanaz
• 
  Mina Kavani
  as Nassrin
• 
  Bahar Beihaghi
  as Mahshid
• 
  Isabella Nefar
  as Yassi
• 
  Raha Rahbari
  as Manna

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