This film was released 5th October 2018, and is no longer screening.

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An unsparing glimpse behind Iran’s façade of moral conservatism, Tehran Taboo follows three characters in crisis as each attempts to navigate a path through the hypocrisies and inequalities of the country’s repressive regime.

Director Ali Soozandeh imaginatively employs distinctive rotoscoping animation to bring his story to life as shooting a film as replete with sex, drugs and corruption as this on the streets of Tehran would prove prohibitively challenging.

Pari (Elmira Rafizadeh), a prostitute, is seeking a divorce from her drug-addicted husband. She moves into a new apartment where her life intersects with that of Sara (Zahra Amir Ebrahimi), a housewife longing for a job to escape her in-laws, and Babak (Arash Marandi), a musician desperately trying to deal with the repercussions of having sex with Donya (Negar Mona Alizadeh), who is engaged to another man.

(Notes by David O’Mahony)

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