Nooshabe Amiri

During the 1970s the Middle East was a battleground for the Cold War; liberal pro-Western forces battled with pro-Soviet Arab Nationalists and Baathists. But in 1979 a series of events – the Iranian Revolution, Egypt’s peace with Israel, the Mecca Mosque Siege, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan – contributed to a radical change in the mind-set of the region and its leaders. It was the start of the meteoric rise of radical Islam.

In an elementary school, the students and teachers are dealing with the interruptions caused by a wizard named Jahel Khan. He has created three dolls named Atal, Matal and Tootoole to persuade kids to not study, and is behind the disappearances of books and backpacks that have been happening in the school. To stop him, a group of students backed by the faculty of the school are trying to unfold the mystery of the missing books.

The subject of this film is the problems of censorship in Iran, which interviews several Iranian journalists, writers and thinkers inside and outside Iran.