Strong performance

25.04.2017 | Further production in Cannes

In the seriesSemaine de la Critique is the animated filmTehran Taboo by Ali Soozandeh on the programme of the Cannes Film Festival - the third film with FFHSH participation on the Croisette.

"With a great deal of sensitivity, Ali Soozandeh brings us intoTehran Taboo The film brings the dramatic reality of life for people in the Iranian capital closer. His film is cheeky, fresh and stylistically very successful - and has therefore more than earned its place in the 'Semaine de la Critique'. With Soozandeh's animated film, Karim Moussaoui's Algerian drama and Fatih Akin's Hamburg thriller, we can impressively demonstrate in Cannes the diversity of themes and genres that Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein has to offer as a film location," says Maria Köpf, Managing Director of the FFHSH.

Tehran Taboo is the feature film debut of Iranian director Ali Soozandeh, who lives in Germany. The film uses the stylistic devices of animated film and graphic novel to tackle a socially critical subject. At the centre of the film are three self-confident women and a young musician whose lives intersect in the schizophrenic world of the Iranian capital Tehran. Sex, corruption, drugs and prostitution go hand in hand with strict religious laws in this seething metropolis. Circumventing prohibitions becomes an everyday sport and breaking taboos becomes individual self-realisation. The FFHSH has sponsored the project with 150,000 euros and it is being produced by the companyLittle Dream Entertainment based in Hamburg and Cologne.

The70th Cannes International Film Festival will take place from 17 to 28 May 2017. This year, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein will once again be represented at the joint stand ofFocus Germanythe association of the seven German film funding organisations andGerman Films in the International Village. The56th Semaine de la Critique The independent section is dedicated to the discovery of new, innovative talents in international filmmaking and runs from 18 to 26 May 2017. The programme includes seven feature-length films and ten short and medium-length films.

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