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Tehran Taboo

Directed by Ali Soozandeh

Release: 2018
Runtime: 96
Country: Germany, Austria, Iran
Language: Farsi with English Subtitles
Director: Ali Soozandeh
Composer: Ali N. Askin
Editor: Frank Geiger, Andrea Mertens
Sound: Janis Grossman
Cinematographer: Martin Gschlacht
Writer: Ali Soozandeh

In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. Making use of rotoscope animation, expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh creates a portrait of contemporary Tehran that would be impossible by any other means.

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Technical Info

  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Color: Color