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“If only these walls could talk...”
Student houses often hold a rich familial history that their modern tenants rarely think about. As George and Holly move into their new home, we are gifted glimpses into the house's future student tenants. As the two worlds collide, we witness the joys and pains that stain the walls. The building acts as a home for two forms of family, both equally troubled and perhaps not so different than we may believe. If only these walls could talk...
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As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
