The Girl in the Sneakers - 1998

Directed by Rasoul Sadr Ameli

A naive teenage girl runs away from her strict parents under the belief that she and her equally naive boyfriend will start a new life somewhere else. When her boyfriend fails to arrive at their agreed upon meeting place she is forced to spend her first night alone on the streets of Tehran.

Color, 1 hour 28 minutes, Farsi

Original Title: Dokhtari ba Kafshi-haye-katani

Trailer currently not available, Watch Scene (Farsi w/English subtitles)

Star Rating

Never Ranked

Cast

Pegah Ahangarani	Tedahi
Majid Hajizadeh	Aydid
Akram Mohammadi	Mehpareh
Abdolreza Akbari	Youssef
Mahmoud Jafari	Tedahi's Father

Crew

Writer	Peiyman Ghassemkhani
Director	Rasoul Sadr Ameli
Producer	Manijeh Hokmat
Director of Photography	Dariush Ayari
Sound Recordist	Parviz Abnar Mohammad Mokhtari
Production Designer	Ali Abedini
Editor	Mostafa Kherghehpoush
Sound Mixer	Mohsen Roshan
Music	Malek Iraj Panahi

Pictures

Tedahi (Pegah Ahangarani) and Aydid (Majid Hajizadeh) speak of their dreams in a Tehran park.

The young couple are taken in by the police for not being married.

Tedahi weighs her options as her parents take her home from the police station.

Trying to call Aydid.

Tedahi wins the sympathy of the women on the bus with a phony sob story.

As an unescorted girl, Tedahi is unable to get a hotel room despite have money and a proper id.

Tedahi calls an old teacher whom she still respects but is disappointed with the advice she receives.

No longer under the protection of her parents, Tedahi sees the seedier side of Tehran and the the hardships that its less-fortunate inhabitants must endure.