Persian Lessons
7.7/10 Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
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Both films feature strong female leads and explore the impact of oppressive social forces on Iranian women. The Circle follows a group of female prisoners in a Tehran jail, while Persian Lessons follows a Jewish woman's journey in Nazi Germany.