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The Glass House (2009)

The Glass House poster
Directed by
Hamid Rahmanian
Genre
documentary film
Country
Iran
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows four girls at a rehabilitation center in Tehran. They are working to build better lives for themselves despite difficult circumstances.

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What happens

The Glass House is a 2009 Iranian documentary film by Hamid Rahmanian (director and editor) and Melissa Hibbard (producer and script writer). The film is in Persian with English subtitles. The commercially released DVD also has French, German, Spanish, and Arabic subtitles. The documentary follows four girls who are attempting to pull themselves out of the margins of society by attending rehabilitation center run by Omid Foundation in uptown Tehran. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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