Tehran Taboo

Altman's "Short Cuts" meets Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" and the aesthetic success of rotoscopic animation. The parallel love, escape and exploitation stories of three women in modern-day Tehran where sex and desire are still a taboo.

Synopsis

In Tehran, a city full of social restrictions and religious laws, any crime is followed by harsh punishment. But the thirst for life makes people crave freedom. The lives of three women from different social backgrounds and a young musician will intersect in order to fight the system’s hypocrisy and contradictions.