“An audacious debut. Explore[s] the highly charged theme of sexual and personal freedom in Iran without salaciousness.”
– Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
Cast: Negar Mona Alizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Arash Marandi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Elmira Rafizadeh, Payam Madjilessi
Director/Writer: Ali Soozandeh; Composed by Ali N. Askin
Cinematographer Martin Gschlacht; Editors Frank Geiger and Andrea Mertens; Sound Janis Grossman
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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