The Forbidden University

In Iran, higher education is a crime—for Bahá’ís. The Forbidden University exposes a secret underground network where students and teachers risk prison, raids and exile, for the right to learn. Told through daring first-person accounts and striking animated reenactments, this is the hidden story of a secret beacon of hope born in the shadows.

• Nauzanin KnightDirector
• Nauzanin KnightWriter

• Ava Maria SafaiTolou
• Mohammadali BeheshtimaalShakib
• Parham RownaghiIqan
• Sepideh YadegarNeda
• Naseem NaderiNiknaz
• Hamid KalooraziHead Revolutionary Guard
• Anthony AziziInterrogator 1
• Mansour TaeedBiology Professor
• Shahrokh FerdowsiJudge Muqish
• Maryam ZunuziMedical Sciences Professor
• Valeh AshrafTolou's Lawyer
• Afsaneh NaderiTolou's Mother