Movie Screening: Holy Spider

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

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 […]

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: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Free Entry | Open to the Public The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. The film follows a Tehran Revolutionary Court judge whose growing paranoia, after his gun goes missing, threatens his family amid rising protests.  این فیلم داستان قاضی دادگاه انقلاب تهران را روایت می‌کند […]