Eduqas A-Level Film: Taxi Tehran (Contextual Study)

This full color, animated, interactive PowerPoint Presentation includes 49 slides with detailed discussion of context for the 2015 film. The context closely follows the Lisa Wardle Textbook to prepare A Level film studies students for the Component 2A. examination question. There are practice questions, exercises, and discussion prompts to get students involved in an interactive lesson. The resource should cover a full two hour lesson.

In addition this resource can be used for a contemporary cultural study of life in Iran. Panahi is an internationally celebrated director whose work (including Taxi Tehran) has won critical acclaim and major awards. This film offers a “way in” to Iran including its theocratic regime, its history and its artistic culture.

Themes explored: Women in Iran, Ethnicity, Representations of generational differences, history, crime & punishment, political dissent and its consequences and the nature of filmmaking itself.