Nose, Iranian Style

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{{Infobox film

| name = Nose, Iranian Style

| image =

| director = Mehrdad Oskouei

| producer = Mehrdad Oskouei, Oskouei Film Production

| writer = Mehrdad Oskouei

| starring =

| music = Ali Samadpour

| cinematography = Reza Teymouri

| editing = Maziar Miri, Babak Karimi

| distributor = Sheherazad Media International (SMI), Katayoon Shahabi

| released = {{film date|df=yes|2005|1|20}}

| runtime = 52 min

| country = Iran

| language = Persian

}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/nose-iranian-style-1200515574/ |title=Review: 'Nose Iranian Style' |last=Young |first=Deborah |date=12 June 2006 |accessdate=7 May 2017 |work=Variety}} The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style.{{cite book |author1=A. Jafar |author2= E. Casanova |title=Global Beauty, Local Bodies |publisher=Springer |date=10 December 2013 |isbn=978-1137365347 }} 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.{{cite book |last=Naficy |first=Hamid |title=A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010 |location=Durham and London |publisher=Duke University Press |date=2012 |isbn=978-0822348788 |page=109}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07tehran.html |title=An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects |last=Yong |first=William |date=6 May 2011 |accessdate=7 May 2017 |work=The New York Times}}

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)

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