{"id":2141735,"date":"2025-11-07T21:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2141735"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:36:30","slug":"casting-couch-iranian-style-a-creepy-director-lures-young-women-into-his-web-of-deceit-and-coercion-in-1001-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/casting-couch-iranian-style-a-creepy-director-lures-young-women-into-his-web-of-deceit-and-coercion-in-1001-frames\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Couch Iranian Style: A Creepy Director Lures Young Women Into His Web of Deceit and Coercion in \u20181001 Frames\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c1001 Frames<\/a>,\u201d which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city.<\/p>\n

During the auditions, wannabe actors are asked to improvise scenes including being a cat, being trapped in a room, and being propositioned by a famous director. In fact, the last one is for real as the aspiring thespians eventually discover. It is at that point that the film contorts itself into a horror movie.<\/p>\n

In the auditions, the actors are told the film for which they are auditioning is inspired by \u201cOne Thousand and One Nights<\/a>,\u201d also known as \u201cThe Arabian Nights,\u201d an Arabic folktale in which the central character, Scheherazade<\/a>, has to keep her captor, the king, amused by telling him stories so she isn\u2019t killed.<\/p>\n

U.S.-Iranian director Mehrnoush Alia<\/a> came up with the idea after…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c1001 Frames,\u201d which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city. During the auditions, wannabe actors are asked to improvise scenes including being a cat, being trapped in a room, and being propositioned by a famous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2141736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2141735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Casting-Couch-Iranian-Style-A-Creepy-Director-Lures-Young-Women.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141737,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141735\/revisions\/2141737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}