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.Read More »