Tehran Taboo
- Release Date: March 16, 2018 (limited)
- Genre: Animation, Drama
- Director: Ali Soozandeh
- Producer(s): Ali Samadi Ahadi, Mark Fencer, Frank Geiger, Armin Hofmann
- Writer(s): Ali Soozandeh
- Studio: AZ Films
- Length: 1h 37m | Classification: 13+
Synopsis
In Tehran, a prostitute who is the mother of a mute 12-year-old boy, has no choice but to become the concubine of a corrupt judge in order to get him to approve her divorce from her husband, an imprisoned drug addict who doesn’t want to let her go.
Her new neighbor, a pregnant housewife, wants to work in order to escape the yoke of her mother-in-law; but her banker husband categorically refuses to give her the written authorization she needs. In another part of the city, a naive musician gets into trouble after deflowering his boss’s fiancée in the restroom of a club.
His desperate efforts to get the sum necessary for the operation to restore the young woman’s hymen give him great anguish.