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.
Direction
Soozandeh's rotoscope makes Tehran simultaneously dreamlike and brutally real.
Cinematography
Neon-soaked rotoscoping that refuses to let you look away.
Writing
Interwoven hypocrisies that collapse beautifully in the final act.
Director
Ali Soozandeh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zar Amir Ebrahimi fled Iran in 2008 after a private video leak; her casting here is deliberate reclamation.
Rotoscoping allowed filming 'in' Tehran without cameras—every actor was recorded in Germany, making the invisible visible.
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