Latest Past Events

Documentary screening: Molf-e Gand

Molf-e Gand is a documentary about a southern character named Mohammad Ghadirzadeh, who, in his mid-forties, takes the director and the audience to the world of his seven-year childhood and the beginning of the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran.The documentary is a 53-minute uninterrupted view and is considered the longest shot sequence in the […]

Movie Screening: Holy Spider

Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana

Free to public, RSVP requiredPersian Language Movie with English Subtitle Based on the real case of a family man who murdered 16 prostitutes in Mashhad, Iran. Female journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity […]