Tehran Taboo [videorecording].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Abadinejad, Farhad

Ali, Jasmina

Assadollahy, Rozita

Language:

Faroese

Subjects (All):

Animated.

Local Subjects:

Animated.

Genre:

Animated.

video recordings (physical artifacts)

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Kino Lorber, 2018.

Language Note:

Farsi audio; English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

Summary:

In the 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.

"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 other means"--Back cover

Participant:

Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Assadollahy.

Credits:

Director, Ali Soozandeh.

Notes:

06/12/2018

OCLC:

1101656597

Publisher Number:

738329231583

12121705