First time director Ali Soozandeh chose the animation medium to provide insight into an opaque and two-faced society where sexual and moral freedom has been banished by religious law. TEHRAN TABOO, shot by Austrian DOP Martin Gschlacht and co-produced by Austrian coop99 filmproduction with German Little Dream Entertainment, is one of the seven competition entries of the 56th Cannes Critics Week

In a society where sexual freedom is prohibited by law, the niches of double morality are opened up. In order to narrate a tale of forbidden Iran in his work TEHERAN TABOO, director Ali Soozandeh has chosen an animation technique based on images shot live with actors. We talked to Austrian DOP Martin Gschlacht who provides an insight into an unusual approach on set.