“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with actresses Goldshifteh Farahani and Mina Kavani

-"Reading Lolita in Teheran", based on the best selling book by Azar Nafisi, is premiering at the 19th Rome Film Festival. The film, shot in Rome and directed by Israeli director Eran Riklis, gather together an Iranian-International cast guided by Goldshifteh Farahani and composed by Mina Cavani, Zar Amir, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar, Haha Rahbari and Lara Wolf. As it tells the intimate and real story of women in Iran, fighting and surviving the regime with literature and art, this film project was very important and life changing for the whole cast, especially the actresses involved. Farahani with her fellow colleague Mina Kavani, reminds us: “We don’t have a home anymore but as it is also said in the film, we are Iran, we left Iran but Iran never left us and will never leave us”