Tehran Taboo

Perhaps for the first time in cinema history, a director choose the format of rotoscopic animation with the sole purpose to protect its actors from the revenge of the regime, and the film itself, from censorship.

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.