MY TEHRAN FOR SALE

Showtimes

Sun, Oct 17th at 5:15pm
Mon, Oct 18th at 7:45pm

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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Chicago premiere!
Films of the Iranian Diaspora

  1. MY TEHRAN FOR SALE
  1. 2009, Granaz Moussavi, Australia/Iran, 97 min,
  2. With Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini

“The guerilla style filmmaking needs no excuses: it works cinematically on every level.”

—Andrew L. Urban, UrbanCineFile.com

“Set against a backdrop of rarely seen urban subcultures and a soundtrack of alternative Iranian music.”

—Megan Lehmann, Hollywood Reporter

Hope and terror alternate in this fictional tale of a terminally ill Tehran actress wavering in her plan to emigrate to follow a foreign-born boyfriend, which director Moussavi, now living in Australia, shot against a background of authentic street life and the thriving clandestine culture of Iranian youth. Music plays a prominent role, including singer/songwriter Babak Mirzakhani with his Persian Blues Band, and Mohsen Namjou, “the Bob Dylan of Iran.” MY TEHRAN FOR SALE is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2010 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DigiBeta video. (BS)

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