Reading Lolita in Tehran

7.2

Iran

Drama

108 min

2024

Golshifteh Farahani Zar Amir Ebrahimi Mina Kavani Bahar Beihaghi Isabella Nefar Raha Rahbari Lara Wolf Shahbaz Noshir Arash Marandi Catayoune Ahmadi Reza Diako Ash Goldeh Sina Parvaneh Abbas Fasaei Hamid Karimi Zanyar Mohammadi

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.