The lives of three women and a young musician cross paths when night falls in Tehran – a modern metropolis where sex, drugs, and corruption are concealed by the authoritarian, theocratic regime. Rotoscoping animation technique (which is based on processing existing footage) is the most appropriate method of capturing the tension between harsh realism and the transcendental need of the Iranians to take a leap to a parallel universe, and creates a transfixing nocturnal nightmare.
Tehran Taboo
Tehran Taboo
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Ali Soozandeh
- Script: Ali Soozandeh
- Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
- Editing: Frank Geiger, Andrea Mertens
- Sound: Janis Grossmann
- Music: Ali N. Askin
- Actors: Elmira Rafizadeh, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marand
- Production: Little Dream Entertainment, Coop 99
- Producers: Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Mark Fencer, Armin Hofmann, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner
- Co-production: ZDF, ARTE, ORF
- Art Direction: Ali Soozandeh
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Germany, Austria
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 96΄
- Distribution in Greece: Seven Films
- Contact: Celluloid Dreams
Ali Soozandeh
Director Ali Soozandeh was born in 1970 in Shiraz, Iran. He studied Art in Tehran. After emigrating to Germany, he had his diploma in Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. He founded his own company Cartoonamoon and was involved in many feature films, documentaries and TV-series as an animation specialist. He also directed a number of music videos and short films before helming his feature debut Tehran Taboo. He has worked as head of animation in numerous awarded animated documentaries, like the The Green Wave (2010).
Filmography
2010 The Green Wave
2017 Tehran Taboo
