THE MARRIAGE PROJECT
by Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami
synopsis
Encourage the patients to engage in relationships, get married, and lead a family life. That’s the groundbreaking and rule-changing idea of the head of a mental clinic. Not in Scandinavia or Canada, but in the suffocative and repressive milieu of Tehran. As the first marriages between couples selected by a committee take place, a series of intriguing questions arise. An in-depth glance at the unseen structures and the unwritten laws of a closed-circuit community, where love works in mysterious ways. At the same time, a brave portrait of a regressive society governed by strict rules that cries for change.
international title: | The Marriage Project |
original title: | The Marriage Project |
country: | Iran, France, Qatar |
sales agent: | Java Films |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami |
film run: | 80' |
screenplay: | Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami |
cinematography by: | Mehdi Azadi, Moslem Tehrani |
film editing: | Farid Daghagheleh |
music: | Amen Feizabadi |
producer: | Etienne de Ricaud, Hesam Eslami, Atieh Attarzadeh, Fiona Lawson-Baker |
production: | Caractères Productions, Aras Films (IR), AJE Witness (QA) |