The Glass House - Washington DC

Washington DC screening: 

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Freer Gallery - Meyer Auditorium
1050 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20024  Map
Free Screening. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
For more information visit the Freer Gallery

Q and A with Hamid Rahmanian (director), Melissa Hibbard (producer) and Marjaneh Halati (Founder of the Omid e Mehr Center)

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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 Glass House 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 of The Glass House 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.

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Directed by Hamid Rahmanian, Produced by Melissa Hibbard
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