| Feb |
| 27 |
| 7:00 pm |
When: Saturday, February 27 at 9:00 pm (92 minutes.)
Where: Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana
Description from the Fictionville Studio (Producer) website:
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music.
This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.
Discussion afterward led by Profs. Noreen Sugrue, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, & Dr. Ritu Saksena; Chair: Prof. Hadi Salehi Esfahani.
Sponsors: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Spurlock Museum, Program for Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, Persian Cultural Association (UIUC), & Parkland Reads.
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