The Glass House

The Glass House

Wednesday, 5 November 2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd. OX2 6JF
Speaker(s): 
Marjaneh Halati (CEO of the OMID Foundations)
Series: 
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The film follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you've seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls. - Melissa Hibbard on IMDB