Greifswald Literature Spring 2026 - Casablanca film club shows "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
How literature can create spaces of inner freedom even in the darkest of times.
In post-revolutionary Tehran in the 1990s, literature professor Azar Nafisi dares to undertake a silent act of resistance: she secretly gathers six of her female students in her flat for a private reading circle. Together, they immersed themselves in the banned works of Western literature - from Vladimir Nabokov to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James to Jane Austen. In the midst of political repression and religious control, reading becomes an act of self-empowerment that inspires the women to reflect on freedom, love and identity.
With LOLITA READING IN TEHERAN, Eran Riklis (LEMON TREE) tells the true story of Azar Nafisi - based on her international bestseller of the same name.
Italy, Israel 2025, directed by Eran Riklis, 108 min, with Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir, Mina Kavani and others, original language
