A Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty

Recorded: March 13, 2022

Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty is a retrospective of Simin Behbahani’s life and unique poetry. Largely in her own words, using family and period photos, interviews with noted poets and critics, this portrait traces her poetic development from her family roots, modern poetry movement, and reinventing Ghazal to explore the social, political, cultural, and moral issues of Iranian society. The film is in Persian with English subtitles.