Movies and TvShows featuring "rejection-of-tradition" theme.

A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits. Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of ‘The Sealed Soil” was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase, and taken to the U.S., where she completed her final cut. The film has never been seen in Iran.

Deborah and Rachid both grew up in a Lyon suburb where everyone knows each other. Their respective religions and cultures weigh on them and forbid their budding love. Two religions that all seem to oppose but ultimately not so different from each other. Braving family and religious prohibitions, they meet again on the evening of a starry night. Treason? The line has been crossed ... from this night of love two twins came into the world.