Tehran: City of Love
Iran – UK – The Netherlands / 2019 / 102 min
Technical Details :
Forough Ghajabegli, Mehdi Saki, Amir Hessam Bakhtiar, Behnaz Jafari
Here & There Productions (Babak Jalali), Viking Film (Marleen Slot), Kavir Film (Mohammad Ahmadi), Maryam Najafi
Hamed Sabet
Farsi
Festivals & Awards :
BFI – Official Selection
Rotterdam IFFR – Voices
Sofia IFF – In Competition
Atlanta IFF – In Competition
Middle East Now – Official Selection
Washington DC IFF – Official Selection
Beijing IFF – Official Selection
San Francisco FF – Official Selection
Off Camera – Official Selection
FilmFest München – Official Selection
Frameline – Official Selection
Cabourg FF – Official Selection
Taipei IFF – Official Selection
Moscow IFF – Official selection
UCLA Iranian FF – Official selection
Focus on Asia Fukuoka IFF – In competition
Curaçao Rotterdam FF – Official selection
Helsinki IFF – In competition
Anonimul IFF – In competition
UC Irvine Event – Official selection
Cinefest Miskolc IFF – In competition
!f Istanbul – Official competition
Soundscreen FF – Official competition
MediOrizzonti IFF – Official selection
Mostra de Sao Paulo IFF – Official selection
Gender Bender IFF – In competition
Virginia IFF – Official selection
Braunschweig IFF – Official selection
Awards :
Young Jury Prize @ Sofia IFF
Best Actress @ Beijing IFF
Ecumenical jury prize at Cinefest Miskolc IFF
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Synopsis :
Three lonely people, each looking for love in their own ways. This is hard enough in any big city – never mind in Tehran, where individual freedoms can’t be taken for granted. In a sexy voice on the telephone, an overweight receptionist seduces men who wouldn’t look twice at her real ‘me’. In revenge, her sexy alter ego stands up every single one of the dates she makes. A former bodybuilding champion now earns a living as a personal trainer. When he gets a promising young sportsman as a client, he drops everything else; even a very promising acting job for a well-known French director. A singer at religious funerals is dumped by his fiancée. He tries to find new purpose in life by retraining as a singer at weddings and parties. That’s a lot more attractive to women, his friend assures him.
