Jul 20 2023
Persian Lessons- Lavazza IncluCity Festival

Persian Lessons- Lavazza IncluCity Festival

Presented by Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) at The Distillery Historic District

Join us on July 20 for the screening of  Persian Lessons- at the Lavazza IncluCity Festival. The film is set in 1942. Along with other Jews, Gilles, a young Belgian man, is detained by the SS and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. By declaring to the guards that he is Persian and not Jewish, he just escapes being put to death. This deception spares him for a while, but then Koch, the officer in command of the camp\'s food preparation, requests that Gilles teach him Persian so that he might one day start a restaurant in Persia. Gilles is forced to create a language from scratch, word by word. Gilles is strongly aware that one wrong move may reveal his con, as the two men\'s unique friendship starts to raise envy and suspicion.

Admission Info

Phone: (416) 893-3966

Email: info@icff.ca

Dates & Times

2023/07/20 - 2023/07/20

Location Info

The Distillery Historic District

9 Trinity St., Toronto, ON M5A 3C4