Paradise / Ma dar Behesht
by
Sina Ataeian Dena
New World View: Iran
Polish on fingernails. Football during break. The girls constantly push their boundaries – until a message by their head teacher orders them to stop. This is where, in a suburb of Tehran, 24-year-old Hanieh teaches with little motivation. Each morning at the break of dawn she makes the arduous bus journey into the city. For a long time, she has fought to get a post in the city center, but her application is caught up in the chaotic Iranian administration. However, her private problems take a back seat when two of her pupils disappear one day. PARADISE is a trenchant study of state education and control. Shot clandestinely in Tehran, Sina Ataeian Dena’s debut garnered two awards in Locarno.
- Genre: Drama
- Country, Year: Iran, Germany, 2015
- Runtime: 100 Min
- Languages: Farsi
- Subtitles: German, English
- Director: Sina Ataeian Dena
- Cast: Dorn Dibaj, Fateme Naghavi, Fariba Kamran, Nahid Moslemi, Roya Afshar
- Screenplay: Sina Ataeian Dena
- Cinematography: Payam Sadeghi
- Editors: Sina Ataeian Dena, Mohammad Tavakoli
- Sound: Homan Maleki, Gregor Bonse, Lajos Wienkamp-Marques
- Producers: Sina Ataeian Dena, Yousef Panahi, Amir Hamz
- Production Companies: Bon Voyage Films, Sina Dena Films
- Swiss Distribution: Filmcoopi Zürich AG