Join us for a screening of The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life (2024, dir. Persis Karim and Soumyaa Behrens, 55 min.), followed by a conversation and Q&A session with the co-director, Persis Karim! This event is free and open to the public.
About the film: The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life poetically narrates the story of a community of Iranian Americans who have made the San Francisco Bay Area their home over the past five decades. The film seeks to expand our understanding of Iranian immigration — what it means to leave home and country, and to live through the episodes of turbulent histories of dissent, revolution, war, and separation — and reinvent oneself in a new place, country, and culture.
The Dawn is Too Far does not paint a story of salvation and happy assimilation but rather seeks to identify the complex ways that members of the Bay Area's Iranian diaspora community have navigated the challenges and traumas of history to reinvent themselves and tell their own stories.