Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi, a former professor at Tehran University, secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. As fundamentalists seize control, 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 form their own future.

Winner of the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for the Female Cast at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a powerful new film by director Eran Riklis.