His first feature film was "Tehran Taboo", an animated film which explores "the secret life of young people in Iran struggling to express their sexuality and embrace life while living under the country's oppressive, theocratic regime". The film had its premiere at the International Critics' Week sidebar of the 70th Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. and opened to generally favorable reviews in the U.S. in February 2018. The film has attracted attention for its subject matter and its visual style, which "The Hollywood Reporter" has described as "a unique combination of rotoscoping and motion capture with hand-drawn and computer animation".