Nose, Iranian Style
# Nose, Iranian Style

Nose, Iranian Style is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs (rhinoplasty) in Iran, which statistically has the most of any country. The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style. Nose, Iranian Style relates the trend to politics, with it and the 2007 documentary Tehran: 11 pm connecting it to the importance of appearance, given the taboo of men and women directly and socially interacting. However, Oskouei said the film was truly a critique of excessive consumerism.

Variety critic Deborah Young positively reviewed Nose, Iranian Style as "A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary." It became Oskouei's most famous film internationally.

## Festivals

* 18th Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)(2005/Netherlands)

Nomination Golden MovieSquad DOC U! Award

* Salaam DK – Multi cultural Film Festival (2006/Denmark)
* 2nd Ukrainian Int’l Documentary Film Festival "Contact" (2006/Ukraine)
* 3rd EBS Int’l Documentary Film Festival (2006/Seoul, Korea)
* Oslo Documentary Film Festival (5 – 15 Oct 2006/Norway)
* 5th Tek Film Festival (2006/Italy)
* Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies in Iran Heritage (2006/London, UK)
* 5th Int’l Documentary & Short Films Festival (2006/Prizren, Kozova)
* 1st Irans Film Festival (2006/Utrecht, Netherland)
* Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (2006 /Rio, Brazil)
* 9th Int’l 1001 documentary Film Festival (2006/Istanbul, Turkey)
* Film From the South (2006/Norway)
* Museum of Fine Arts US (2006/USA)
* Jakarta Int’l Film Festival (2006/Indonesia)
* UCLA Film & Television Archive (2007/Los Angeles, USA)
* Aljazeera Int'l Film Festival (2007/Aljazzera, Qatar)
* Syracuse Int'l Film Festival (2007/USA)
* Visual Representations of Iran (2008/St.Andrews, Scotland)
* Berlins Cinema Babylon (2008/Germany)
* Faito Documentary Film Festival (2008/Italy)
* Belmont World Film (2009/USA)
* 6th Planet Documentary Review Film Festival (2009/Poland)
* "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei",s films, Images Cinema (2011/Williamstown, USA)
* "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei", Das Iranische Wien, Filmarchiv Austria (2012/Vienna. Austria)
