The windows of the cloths shops attract the interest of the Iranian passersby who stop and pause in front of the displayed clothes. They meet the looks of the grotesque mannequins, disturbing reproductions of the female figure which have become a metaphor of women's veiled and mutilated bodies, redefined according to the regime's law. In the 80s the mannequins disappeared from the shop windows, reappearing after the war between Iran and Iraq. First the male mannequins, then the female ones appeared again, modified by the production companies in order to minimize the feminine characteristics, like a warning sent to the Iranian women and society. An absurd totem intended to perpetuate the established order.

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Firouzeh Khosrovani
Fotografia (colore, b/n) / Photography (colour, b/w) Abbas Kowsari
Montaggio / Editing Bijan Mirbagheri, Kayvan Jahanshahi
Musica / Music Farhad Asadian, Kayvan Jahanshahi
Produzione / Production Firouzeh Khosrovani
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 26’
Formato / Format DVD

Firouzeh Khosrovani

Born in Tehran, she settles in Italy to accomplish her art studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera. After the graduation in 2002, she goes back to Iran. 2004 she mastered in journalism in Tehran. She makes her filmmaking debut with the screenplay and the cooperation to photography of Behesht-e Zahra, Madre dei Martiri, a documentary about the Iran-Iraq War. She works together with the Italian Red Cross in Bam, the town devastated by a earthquake, where she made the documentary about the Red Cross project Centro d'Assistenza Psicosociale (2004), screened by the Italian und Iranian TV. She writes for various Italian newspapers like Il Manifesto, Limes, D della Repubblica, where her recent reportage Corpi del Reato appears, about the same subject of this film.