
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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.
Top Billed Cast

Golshifteh Farahani
Azar Nafisi

Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Sanaz

Mina Kavani
Nassrin

Bahar Beihaghi
Mahshid

Isabella Nefar
Yassi
Featured Crew
Michael Sharfshtein
Producer
Moshe Edery
Producer
Santo Versace
Producer
Gianluca Curti
Producer

Eran Riklis
Producer
Marjorie David
Writer

Eran Riklis
Director
Azar Nafisi
Novel
Marica Stocchi
Producer
Michal Koren
Casting

Eran Riklis
Casting
Jacopo Cino
Line Producer