Teheran Tabu

Exploring the sexual & gender double standards in contemporary Iran, all resulting from their strict religious codes, Tehran Taboo paints a thoroughly fascinating portrait of everyday life lived in the bustling modern metropolis where breaking societal taboos has now become the only way for its people to achieve freedom & happiness.

Extremely pessimistic, Tehran Taboo wants to say everybody in Iran is corrupted because of the theocracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the point of view of this animation, everybody who lives in Iran is a lier, disgusting, insinuating, maniac, selfish and egocentric. But it is just a cartoon and doesn't show the real-life in Iran. Unfortunately, the international festivals gave some rewards to this animation so the one who doesn't know the truth about Iranian real people and their lives may believe that all the issues in Tehran Taboo is base on reality.

With all the clever and beautiful aspects of the movie, there are still basic details that are not observed and it is because the makers do not live in Iran.

It's the most realistic narrated movie about Iran and our crap regime...

Of course its visual and some things about it can be more realistic and much more beautiful but there are lots of things in it that history must to know about!

By the way it's an adult oriented movie and not a family movie, be careful there are lots of inappropriate stuff in it for children like sex, abortion, porn, drugs, adultery, suicide, prostitution, strong language... I'm saying that because it's an animation and can 'cos misunderstanding sometimes.

It's a really suffocating experience to live in Iran. it's good to know that people from other countries know about it and care about it, they can see it in these kinda movies and try to avoid it in their countries, I mean don't let Islam or any other religion ruin your country like ours...!

A powerful film that leaves the viewer completely appalled at the end. Rotoscoping is ideally suited to this film by allowing the viewer to focus on the action and dialogues without being distracted by the details of untransformed images. This lets the viewer realize how religions, especially that which prevails in Iran and elsewhere, have been invented to control people, especially women. In Tehran Taboo, religion is clearly exposed as a catalyst used by criminally insane authorities to facilitate their crimes. Made me glad to be an atheist.