The Manchador

Kaveh Tehrani

Biography:
Kaveh Tehrani (b. 1978 in Tehran) is a Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker. Tehrani has written and directed the short films 1994 (2010), Victor (2014) and The Manchador (2019), and has won several awards at various international film festivals. For 1994, Tehrani won the National Norwegian Film Award, The Amanda, for Best short film.

Filmography:
2010: 1994

2014: Victor

2019: The Manchador

Festival(s) & Award(s)

2019: Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad • Audience Award
2019: Leuven International Short Film Festival
2019: Bergen International Film Festival
2019: Torino Short Film Market - Oltrecorto Pitch
2019: Oslo films from the South Festival
2020: Aspen Shortsfest • Youth Jury Award
2020: Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF
2020: Helsinki Film Festival
2020: Aesthetica Short Film Festival
2020: Interfilm Festival

Synopsis

Mina and Saeed live a stressful life in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Being a woman in Iran is not particularly easy and Mina sees a future for the family elsewhere. She wants to move abroad, but Saeed then invents a device that places the responsibility for the hijab where it belongs – with the men whose gaze women need protection from.
The Manchador is a satire about life in modern day Tehran, seeing, our senses, and spirituality.

Technical Specs

Runtimes: 20'
Color(s): Colors
Sound: 5.1
Country(ies) of production: Iran / Norway
Original Language(s): Persian
Subtitle(s) available: English
Audience: General Audiences
Format(s) available: ProRes HD

Artistic & Technical Crew

With: Reza Brojerdi, Narges Rashidi, Jasmin Tabatabai, Sarina Ashkpour, Mohammad-Ali Behboudi

Screenplay: Kaveh Tehrani
Cinematographer: Adam Wallensten
Editor: Kristoffer Archetti
Sound: César Fernández Borrás (set), Adrian Baumeister (mix), Nora Siebe (design)
Music: Javid Afsari Rad
Producer: Verona Meier, Ruben Thorkildsen