Cast
Crew
Behzad Nalbandi
Director
Behzad Nalbandi
Writer
Behzad Nalbandi
Cinematography
Ata Ebtekar
Music
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The Unseen
Animation
Documentary
The Unseen
Kaghaz-Pareh Ha
2019
1:5
★ 7
When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of ‘urban beautification’. Those who are deemed unsavoury are rounded up – drug users, prostitutes and the homeless who sleep in cardboard boxes on sidewalks and who they would rather remain unseen. When these very important people leave, the men are released but the women are kept as wards of the state. An animated documentary made using hand-crafted cardboard miniatures and the voices of women to tell their story, one that has been five years in the making. A story that shows how the face of a city can change, but what is underneath often does not.