Iranian Style - Brand New Noses

Damagh Be Sabke Irani (aka Nose Iranian Style) is an Iranian documentary that explores the obsession to get nose job among Iranians in particular young people. While Iranians are leading world on nose job and even some called Tehran world capital of nose jobs and there is no doubt that compulsory hijabs and restricted Islamic rules which has been enforced by authorities are the main reasons that drove people to be more superficial than before. Although there is nothing wrong to be more attractive and/or beautiful but it raises concern when it becomes epidemic at the national level.

Here are some lines of documentary that it would probably give you an idea of director's vision:

Boy: We have a change of culture in our country in the past 25 years. It has destroyed many of our values. Many judgments are based upon appearance.

Boy: They banned everything and then opened them suddenly. The youth doesn’t know what to do. Suddenly they are faced with an open field. He doesn’t know which way to go. How far he has to withhold himself. Where the boundary lies. Where the limit is. He doesn’t know these things.

Girl: The main thing that women are free to do is to do something with their face in order to be seen.

I think so Mehrdad has done very good job by putting spotlight on issues that Iranian youth face nowadays. Also here are two reviews about Mehrdad Oskouei's documentary:

"While a number of filmmakers and sociologists have weighed in on the growing popularity of plastic surgery among young people in America and what this says about the self-image of teens, what few people know is that more nose jobs are performed in Iran each year than in any other country in the world -- between sixty and seventy thousand annually. A large and growing percentage of young people in Iran, hoping to adopt a more "western" appearance, have their noses made smaller through rhinoplasty, even young Moslem women who hide most of their faces with traditional scarves. Filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei explores this phenomenon in his documentary Damagh Be Sakbe Irani (aka Nose Iranian Style), in which he interviews a number of teens who have either had the operation or are considering it, the parents to give their blessings to this practice (and their money to the plastic surgeon), and trends in Middle Eastern culture which may be contributing to this wave of new noses." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide - The New York Times review

"Mehrdad Oskouei uses feather-light humor to suggest how far his country has back-tracked since the 1979 revolution and war with Iraq.

School girls, but also boys, look forward to their nose operations, which they hope will make them attractive to the opposite sex. Model noses are found in Western fashion mags, but Michael Jackson is also cited. Entire families follow the cookie-cutter fashion, rarely motivated by any real need. Possible reasons behind this rhinoplasty epidemic are the emphasis that scarves and hijabs put on women's faces, and a general feeling of loss of identity among the younger generation. Oskouei and his editors wisely let the patients and surgeons speak for themselves with minimal comment." ~ DEBORAH YOUNG, Variety's Festivals & Markets

It seems that world are very well aware of Iranians nose job problem so there has been some other documentaries, and I think "Nose Job - Iran" from Journeyman Pictures is a good one to watch too.