Auditoria Belgrade — Book presentation and lecture «Mini-skirts, Jameson and Rap in Iran»

Auditoria Belgrade

🇮🇷 BIG IRANIAN EVENING

Iran is a country where women's singing is banned, where concertgoers are not allowed to dance — only to sit — and where a tattoo on a musician's body can be reason enough to have their license revoked forever.

On June 25 we invite you to an evening dedicated to Iran — a country often presented solely through prohibitions, politics and the news, but which turns out to be much more complex, livelier and more contradictory than any stereotype.

• ➡️ 19:00 — Book presentation and lecture by Nikita Smagin 'Mini-skirts, Jameson and Rap in Iran'
  • The morality police, the mandatory hijab, the alcohol ban. From the façade, Tehran may seem strict and monochrome. But close the apartment door — and a completely different world opens up.
  • Journalist, Middle East specialist and Prosveshchitel Prize finalist Nikita Smagin lived in Iran for several years as a correspondent and wrote about it in the book 'All Iran', recently republished by Meduza.
  • At the event Nikita will talk about the everyday life of a country that almost always stays beyond the headlines: about banned music, underground culture, social rules and the endless inventiveness of people who learn to live within a system of restrictions.
  • This will not be just a lecture, but a real show, with banned music playing from the speakers and photos and videos on the screen that could not be printed in the book.
• 🎫 Price: 2300 RSD
• ➡️ 21:00 — Screening and discussion of the film 'Offside' (2006) with film critic Egor Sennikov
  • 'Offside' by director Jafar Panahi is one of the most vivid and humane films of contemporary Iranian cinema.
  • During a decisive football match of the Iranian national team, several girls try to get into the stadium despite the ban on women attending football games. They are quickly detained, but on this day the usual order of things begins to crack.
  • Filmed during the real Iran–Bahrain match, 'Offside' works simultaneously as a comedy, a social statement and a very accurate portrait of a society where the desire for freedom constantly clashes with a system of prohibitions.
  • It's a rare opportunity to see Iran from two perspectives in one evening: through the live account of someone who lived there and through the cinema of one of the country's leading directors.
• 📍 Vojvode Dobrnjca 48, Belgrade