How can young people in Iran enjoy their lives under the strict eyes of Islam’s watchdogs when unmarried and unrelated couples are not even allowed to shake hands in public? The main characters of this feature film find a not entirely risk-free but completely law-abiding solution that Western singles can only dream of – a temporary marriage.

Director: Reza Serkanian
Script: Reza Serkanian
Camera: Mehdi Jafari
Editing: Caroline Emery
Music: Hossein Ali Zadeh
Sound: Mehdi Saleh Kermani
Production: Overlap Films, Frankreich
Co-Production: Hanfgarn & Ufer
Funding: Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres; Fond Culture and Communication, Fonds Sud, Frankreich; EZEF, Deutschland; Experimental and Documentary Film Center, Iran

Maryam: Mahnaz Mohamadi
Kazem: Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
Aziz: Javad Taheri
Hadji: Dariush Asadzade
Delphine: Clothilde Joulin
Pierre: Fabrice Desplechin
Azam: Masoume Mohamadi Asi
Effat: Soheyla Kashef Azar
Fatima: Azam Reshid Khani
Kazems Vater: Aziz-Olla Zaimi
Sarah: Anahita Rokni

ACID, Cannes Filmfestival (France), 2011