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Title Tehran Taboo.

Publication Info. Kino Lorber, 2017.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Assadollahy
Event Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2017.
Summary 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. Nominated for the Critics' Week Grand Prize and the Golden Camera at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Using skillful, involving storytelling and beautifully executed rotoscoped photography, director Ali Soozandeh creates a world of intersecting urban miseries and challenges." - Godfrey Cheshire, **RogerEbert.com***
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
Middle East.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Added Author Soozandeh, Ali, film director.
Abadinejad, Farhad, actor.
Ali, Jasmina, actor.
Assadollahy, Rozita, actor.
Kino Lorber (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 5109176 Kanopy