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The Tournées Festival: Persepolis
When: Thu Oct 27 • 7:00 pm
Where: Lecture Center
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
2007 / 95 min.
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming of age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of this precocious nine year old, Marjane, that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians”. But fear of the new regime runs deep, and she is sent to school in Vienna. She returns to Iran to be close to her family, only to leave again at 24. Although she loves her country, she realizes that she cannot live there and she moves to France.
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Centre National de la Cinématographie. Sponsors include The Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and highbrow entertainment. Presented by the Liebowitz Center for International Studies. Co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literature and the Division of Social Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock.