Director: Nahid Persson
Run Time: 90 minutes
When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Empress Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the Shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. As a child, Persson Sarvestani had lived in dire poverty, watching Pahlavi's royal wedding as if it were a fairy tale. She joined the Communist faction of Khomeini's revolution that deposed the Shah when she was a teenager, sending him and his family volleying from country to country.
When Khomeini betrayed his promise for democracy, imposing even more violent measures than the shah, Persson Sarvestani was forced to flee as well. Thirty years later, she needs key questions answered and goes directly to the source. Surprisingly, Empress Farah welcomes her as a fellow refugee from their beloved homeland, granting unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, Persson Sarvestani enters the queen's world. Despite their differences, the encounter changes them both, united in the end by their profound longing for the country they loved.
After the film: Dr. Negar Mottahedeh, an associate professor of literature and women's studies at Duke University and author of "Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema," will give a lecture on the history of Iran's 1979 Revolution and the impact it has had on Iranian cinema.
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