Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024) is an Israeli-Italian drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Eran Riklis, it adapts Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir, with Golshifteh Farahani in the lead.

Tehran, the 1990s. A literature professor secretly gathers six female students in her apartment to read books the regime has banned — Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Austen. Veils come off at the door. The pages of those novels become the one place where these women can say what they actually think.

Nafisi's memoir spent years on international bestseller lists. Riklis makes it a quiet, contained film — freedom measured in one room and a stack of paperbacks. Stream Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024) online on iFILM.