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SOS in Tehran
A Film by Sou Abadi
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What is on the minds of contemporary Iranians? To answer this question Sou Abadi spent five months in Tehran, documenting what happens in the city's social service and psychological institutions, which have never been filmed by Iranian filmmakers. We visit:

- The Voice of Assistance is a psychology telephone hotline,

- The Committee of the Imam, a charity created by the Ayatollah Khomeini for the poor,

- The mandatory pre-marital sex education courses of the Health Ministry,

- The group psychotherapy sessions of Dr. Majd, psychoanalyst of Tehran's elite,

- and The Marriage Foundation, an ultra-Islamic matrimonial agency.

By taking the camera into places where people come to confide, SOS IN TEHRAN shows us the unseen life in of the rich and poor, the educated and the illiterate, the religious and the atheistic, the married and the adolescent.

"A compassionate observation of Iranians' private pain. Remarkable." - Al Jadid: A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts

Best Documentary, 2001 Brussels International Independent Film Festival
2001 Prize of the Jan Vrijman Foundation (Amsterdam)
2001 SCAM Prize, "Brouillon d'un reve," French Documentary Directors Guild
2001 Amsterdam International Documentary Festival
2000 Cannes Film Festival, New Talents "Universelles" Section
  

52 minutes / color
Release Date: 2001
Copyright Date: 2000
Sale: $390

Subject areas:
Adolescence, Family Relations, Health Care Issues, Human Rights, Iran, Islam, Middle East, Psychology, Sociology, Women's Studies

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