Lire Lolita à Téhéran

Original title: Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024
1h 48m

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Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Lara Wolf, Isabella Nefar, Mina Kavani, Raha Rahbari, and Bahar Beihaghi in Lire Lolita à Téhéran (2024)

The autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathers seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics in revolutionary Iran.The autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathers seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics in revolutionary Iran.The autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathers seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics in revolutionary Iran.

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Releases March 26, 2025

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A literature teacher returns to Iran after the revolution in 1979 and with her own eyes, which get wetter and wetter as the film goes on, sees the changes that happen in her beautiful country and how women suffer injustice, violence, and some of them are violently raped and executed. It looks unbearable but she stays and even continues to teach this banned Western literature in secret. Her story is heartbreaking, and with her eyes we see other stories and broken lives; but what is even more important is that maybe, hopefully, in the future the people of Iran will be able to watch this. As part of their history. As part of their troubled past.