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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ Sees Israel-Iran Filmmaking Collaboration Bear Fruit Amid Escalating Conflict: ‘Hate Will Not Work’
'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' an Israel-Iran filmmaking collaboration, scored an award just as the two countries fired missiles at each other.
On Oct. 27, one day after Israel launched retaliatory missile strikes on Iran, Rikils beamed on stage as he accepted the Rome event’s special jury prize alongside most of the film’s ensemble female cast including Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani, Isabella Nefar and Raha Rahbari. Riklis, who is known for directing female-centric dramas steeped in Middle East politics such as “The Syrian Bride” and Hiam Abbas-starrer “Lemon Tree,” really loved Nafisi’s book, which he thought matched his filmmaking style. The film, about how Nafisi (played by Farahani) gathered seven of her female students and formed a book club of sorts to read forbidden Western classics just as post-revolution Islamic extremism mounted in Iran, was eventually shot in Italy.
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