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Tattoo

2019 · 15 min

A quietly suffocating bureaucratic encounter where polite questions turn invasive, leaving you tense and uneasy long after it ends.

Overview
The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • power
    • gender
    • isolation
    Places
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour0
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension7
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Farhad Delaram
    Written by
    Farhad Delaram
    Starring
    Behdokht Valian, Alireza Sanifar, Anahita Eghbalnejad, Mojtaba Fallahi, Pooria Shakibai
    Cinematography
    Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah
    Runtime
    15 min
    Country
    Iran
    Languages
    Persian

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