Writing on the City (2016)

Original title

Neveshtan bar shahr

Directed by

Keywan Karimi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at graffiti in Tehran and the people who create it. The filmmaker began the project in 2012 and completed it in 2015.

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What happens

Writing on the City (Persian: نوشتن بر شهر, translit. Neveshtan bar Shahr) is a 60 minutes documentary film about graffiti in Tehran by Iranian Independent filmmaker Keywan Karimi. The Karimi started working on the documentary in 2012 and completed it in August 2015. It has since been edited several times and has been shown in several film festivals. Karimi arrested in 2013 by Revolutionary Guard Corps and in October 2015 sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court to six years imprisonment and 223 Lashes for "propagating against the Islamic Republic" and "insulting religious sanctities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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