Azar Nafisi's 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' Bestseller Becomes Film

The film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' premiered at the Rome Film Festival after its debut at Cannes last year. The book, translated into 32 languages, recounts Nafisi's secret literature classes with seven female students in post-revolutionary Iran, using Western classics to inspire resistance against the regime's oppression. The film stars Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani, Lara Wolf, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar, and Raha Rahbari. Directed by Riklis, it will be released in Italian cinemas on November 21 via Minerva Pictures. The story predates the 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, aiming to expose the conditions of women in Iran.