Women in Iranian Cinema: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night + Introduction 
Ana Lily Amirpour's debut is a brilliant modern twist on the vampire film, with aspects taken from westerns and the haunting black-and-white industrial landscape of David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
Set within the moody, evocative surroundings of ‘Bad City’, a skateboarding vampire (Sheila Vand) arrives in town and begins stalking the neighbourhood. Soon, she crosses paths with Arash (a James Dean-channelling Arash Marandi), a young man struggling to take care of his sick father. The two begin to form a strong connection and an unusual love story begins to blossom… blood red.
Boldly original and hypnotic, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night playfully and unpredictability defies the expectations of the genre, elevating the vampire film to thrilling new territory.
This screening will be introduced by Dr Zahra Khosroshahi, lecturer in Film & Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.
This June, join our LUMI Programmers in celebrating the powerful representations and censorship-defying contributions of Women in Iranian Cinema.
