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I'm Taraneh, 15 (2002)
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Original name: من ترانه پانزده سال دارم
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Taraneh is a model 15-year-old Iranian girl, studious and filial, who supports her ailing grandmother with a job at a photo shop and visits her father (who has been imprisoned for reasons never made clear in the film) bearing gifts of cigarettes and magazines. But when Amir, a young man from a well-off family, sets his sights on Taraneh and courts her with an intensity that borders on stalking, her well-ordered life spirals into chaos.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, tension, islamic
Plot:
pregnancy, young mother, teenager, female protagonist, coming of age, divorce, family drama, social realism, gender roles, forced marriage, responsibility, class differences, patriarchy, moral dilemma, resilience, stalking, isolation, wooing, iranian, emigration, grief, father daughter relationship, baby, pregnant teenager, working mom ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
persia, iran, middle east
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