My City Pizza
An often funny documentary about Tehran's pizzerias as a battelground between traditions & modernity
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Overview
- Genre
- Social Issues, Contemporary Issues, Culture, Human Interest, and Lifestyle
- Synopsis
While a wide range of delicious and wellknown traditional foods are available, yet Pizza is very popular in Tehran.This light-hearted, amusing, fast-paced document about eating habits in modern Teheran offers a kaleidoscopic view of the Iranian society. We see young people, old people, progressive and conservative Iranians who all divulge their identity via their standpoints with respect to the advancing Italian fast-food; Pizza, in the capital.
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 26 minutes
Credits
- Ala Mohseni ... Director & Editor
Production Details
- Country
- Iran
- Years of Production
- 2008
- Locations
- Tehran
- Prod. Partners
- BBC World Service Trust
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2008
- Festivals
- Idfa, Urban FilmFest, Oxdox, BigPond Adelaide, Chelsea Art Museum, Starz Denver , Iran's Film Festival Zaandam, Boston Festival of Films from Iran, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Dresden, Didor, UKIFF ...
- Awards
- Best Short film of Oxdox International Documentary Film Festival/Oxfored/UK/2009 & Best Documentary of 3rd International Urban Film Festival/Iran/2009
- Language
- Persian
- Subtitles
- English
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