My Tehran for Sale

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My Tehran for Sale

My Tehran for Sale (Persian :تهران من، حراج), is a 2009 Australian-Iranian feature film written and directed by poet turned filmmaker Granaz Moussavi, produced by Cyanfilms and starring Marzieh Vafamehr, and Amir Chegini and Asha Mehrabi.

Officially selected by Toronto, Rotterdam, Pusan and several other international film festivals, this film explores the contemporary Tehran and its underground art scene, focusing on the life of a young actress who has been banned from her theater work. Struggling to pursue her passion in art as well as her secret lifestyle in a socially oppressed environment, Marzieh gets involved in some subsequent and unexpected events leading her to a dilemma regarding her survival and identity. My Tehran for Sale has been compared with Cristian Mungiu's film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Parviz Jahed, an Iranian critic and film scholar.^[1]

My Tehran For Sale is the winner of

Plot

Marzieh is a young female actress who lives in Tehran. The authorities ban her to work at a theater, as many young actors in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear."^[4]

Awards and nominations

The film has been an official selection to

Controversy surrounded the film when unauthorized copies of the film were circulated in Tehran. In July 2011, Iranian authorities arrested Vafamehr, reportedly for acting in the film without proper Islamic hijab and with a shaved head. She was sentenced to one year in prison and 90 lashes, however due to international pressure and various campaigns, an appeals court later reduced her sentence to only three months' imprisonment. She was released in October 2011.[7]

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