About this Event
Special Preview Screening!
Director Eran Riklis in Person!
Followed by a book signing with Azar Nafisi!
Trailer: https://tinyurl.com/LolitaTrailer
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, speak about their intimate hopes, loves and disappointments, their femininity and their 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 Festival, 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)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Museum of Asian Art, 1050 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, United States
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