Baad e daboor

All over Iran illegal satellite dishes are sprouting. Few people will admit it, but almost everyone has them. This technology brings a touch of the modern era and of other cultures into the fundamentalist, isolated world of Iran. The inexpensive receivers are home-produced in DIY workshops and are sold even by teachers. Along with MTV, they bring democracy in all its beauty into Iranian households.
The camera follows the sellers and buyers of the forbidden signal. "This it our graveyard of satellite dishes," says a woman on the roof of her house. Soon, however, new ones appear. The authorities struggle in vain against DIY inventiveness and modern media. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)