A tribute screening and celebration of graphic novelist and director Marjane Satrapi.
When Marjane Satrapi was nominated for Animated Feature Film, with co-director Vincent Paronnaud, she became the first woman in the history of the Oscars to have garnered such a nod.
Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, Persepolis is based on Satrapi’s biographical graphic novel of the same name, which follows a precocious young girl in Tehran who comes of age during the country’s 1979 revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Like the graphic novel, the film is in black-and-white and uses traditional animation techniques, achieving a striking palette that remains timeless.
Persepolis is based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel of the same name and follows her life in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The themes and content of Persepolis raised complaints within the Iranian government of the time ultimately leading to the film being blocked and banned from multiple film festivals and countries throughout the world.
This screening is 18+ and will begin at the advertised time above.
French Language with English Subtitles
Content Warning: war, political oppression, trauma, mental health struggles
