Provincetown Film Art Series: Holy Spider

The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 18^th year, is sponsored by the Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and curated and hosted by film scholar Howard Karren. Films in the series, both recent and vintage, are chosen around central themes, but the focus is on films about artists and creativity, and films that are themselves works of art.

Holy Spider (2022)

Directed and cowritten by Ali Abbasi. With Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Mehdi Bajestani. In Persian, subtitled. 1 hour, 58 minutes.

An independent-minded Iranian woman working as a journalist travels to the holy city of Mashhad to bring a serial killer of prostitutes to justice. Based on a true story and shot in Jordan, this riveting, incendiary film by Ali Abbasi (The Apprentice) exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of Iran’s theocratic regime.