Persepolis

IFF Cannes 2007: Oscar Jury Prize 2008: Best Animated Feature Film - Golden Globes 2008 Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film - Cezara Nomination 2008 - Nominations: Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Directing Debut, Best Music - Olivier Bernet, Best Song, Best Editing - Stephane Roche Persepolis is bitter but at the same time moving A story about growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, based on Marjane Satrapi's comic book of the same name.

The black and white animation shows the moment the fundamentalists seize power from the perspective of young Marjane, who begins in Marx's writings and dreams of becoming a prophetess. A growing up girl conducts an intelligent game with the “guardians of morality”, discovers forbidden punk, listens to Abby and Iron Maiden. When persecution escalates and the war with Iraq escalates, Marjane is sent to school in Austria. Satrapi's memories of growing up in the contrasting Iran of the 1970s and 1980s make up an insightful, intimate tale of the absurdities of religious fanaticism and an overwhelming desire for freedom.| In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution A 1979. Mas Marji grew up, she witnessed firsthand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.