Tehran Taboo

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Curated: Animation
  • Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film
  • Gender
  • Screen: Iran
  • Young Talent
  • conflict
  • current
  • middle east
  • religion
  • resistance
  • urban living
  • women

Actors

  • Elmira Rafizadeh
  • Zar Amir Ebrahimi
  • Arash Marandi
  • Bilal Yasar
  • Negar Mona Alizadeh

Director

  • Ali Soozandeh
  • Bruno Wagner

Animation, Drama

1h 36min

16 FSK

DE

Germany
Austria
2016
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law.

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law.


In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

Festivals

Cast & Crew