''I'm Taraneh, 15'' () is a 2002

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ian film directed by Rasul Sadrameli. The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the

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, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Plot

Fifteen-year-old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother, at the insistence of his son, talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage proposal. However, instead of a typical marriage, the union is in form of a temporary religious ceremony or " sigheh." Within four months the couple realize that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir returns to Germany. When Taraneh discovers that she is pregnant she decides against all advice and intense social pressure, to keep the baby.

Cast

* Taraneh Alidoosti as Taraneh * Hossein Mahjoub as Father * Mahtab Nasirpour as Mrs. Kishmili * Milad Sadrameli as Amir

Awards and nominations

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* * * 2002 films Iranian drama films 2000s Persian-language films Films whose director won the Best Directing Crystal Simorgh Films whose writer won the Best Screenplay Crystal Simorgh {{Iran-film-stub

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