Anxious to capture the moods and times of Tehran leading up to the controversial election campaigns of 2009, but faced with multiple government restrictions on filming, director Sepideh Farsi immediately turned to a surprising moviemaking tool: her cell phone. Armed only with a Nokia camera phone and her own daring, she combed the streets of Tehran, recording conversations and scenes that she later edited into this illuminating, intimate look at Iranian life during a time of crisis. The film's grainy, hand-held images work surprisingly well on the big screen, and lend a fittingly claustrophobic intensity and uncertain fragility to the interviewees' words. Women at the beauty salon, men in cafes, taxi drivers, hip-hop artists, street performers, and restless youth: Farsi's subjects come from diverse backgrounds and ages, but all seem united by a willingness to bare their hearts to Farsi, to speak of their fears, their problems, and their uncertainty about their own-and their nation's-future.