

Sarah and Mehri, two friends, set themselves a perilous challenge in high school. But not only are they very young women, they're also Iranians from families with completely opposing views.


Sarah and Mehri, two friends, set themselves a perilous challenge in high school. But not only are they very young women, they're also Iranians from families with completely opposing views.
2024-02-02
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7.2As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
6.2A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
6.3A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
6.6A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
7.2When a young girl's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to navigate the streets of Tehran by herself.
6.1In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
7.2A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
6.1A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
6.7A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
6.6During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
6.1A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
6.1A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
7.3Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.
5.8The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
6.9A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
6.7An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?