
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.
Ava Maria SafaiTolou
Mohammadali BeheshtimaalShakib
Parham RownaghiIqan
Sepideh YadegarNedaNaseem NaderiNiknazHamid KalooraziHead Revolutionary Guard
Anthony AziziInterrogator 1Mansour TaeedBiology Professor
Shahrokh FerdowsiJudge MuqishMaryam ZunuziMedical Sciences ProfessorValeh AshrafTolou's LawyerAfsaneh NaderiTolou's MotherFarrokh NaderiTolou's DadNegaar TebyanianSocial Worker ColleagueAli SeifiRevolutionary Guard 1