(96 min; 2007; English)
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi 

Multiple award winner including Jury Prize & Palm Dog, Cannes Film Festival 2007; César for Best Adapted Screenplay & Best First Film, César Awards, France 2008; NYFCC Award for Best Animated Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2007; Audience Award for Best Foreign Feature Film, São Paulo International Film Festival 2008; among others

Based on Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal-leaning family detained and then executed, and the background of the disastrous Iran/Iraq war.