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SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN
SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN
STEFFI NIEDERZOLL
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SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN
SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN
STEFFI NIEDERZOLL
Country
GERMANY | FRANCE
language
FARSI
2023 year
96 Minutes

SCHEDULE

02.03.2024 / 02:45 PM/ Audi 4 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024 / 05:00 PM/ Audi 10 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she was arrested for murder. Her trial resulted in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh's family, their testimonies, and the letters written by Reyhaneh in prison, the film retraces the fate of a woman who becomes a symbol of resistance and women's rights even beyond the borders of Iran.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Melanie Andernach, Knut Losen
Screenplay: Steffi Niederzoll
Director of Photography: Julia Daschner
Editor: Nicole Kortlüke
Music: Flemming Nordkrog
Sound: Andreas Hildebrandt
Cast: Reyhaneh Jabbari, Shole Pakravan, Fereydoon Jabbari, Shahrzad Jabbari, Sharare Jabbari, Parvaneh Hajilou, Mohammad Mostafaei, Samira Mokarrami
Awards - Winner: Berlin IFF (Compass Perspektive Award - Best Film, Peace Film Award), Biografilm Festival (Best Film Unipol Award), El Gouna FF (Silver Star - Feature Documentary Competition), Dokufest International Documentary and Short FF (Special Mention)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Berlin IFF (Berlinale Documentary Award), São Paulo IFF (Best Documentary), Adelaide FF (Best Documentary)
Director's Biography
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STEFFI NIEDERZOLL

Steffi Niederzoll was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1981. She studied audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. Her short films have screened successfully at international festivals; her medium-length film LEA was selected for the 2008 Perspektive Deutsches Kino. She is an alumna of several masterclasses and won a scholarship to the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Turkey. Alongside her film work, she is also involved in interdisciplinary artistic work. SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN is her debut feature-length documentary.