BORN IN EVIN

A film by Maryam Zaree
Documentary  |  98 min |  AUT, DEU  |  2019
A co-production with Tondowski Films

SYNOPSIS

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress Maryam Zaree on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Exactly forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and the Islamic Republic declared. In the 1980's Ayatollah Khomeini, the so-called religious leader, had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted and murdered. Among them the filmmaker's parents who, after years about their persecution and imprisonment. Maryam Zaree faces the decades-long silence and explores her own questions about the place and the circumstances of her birth.

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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

BFFS BUNDESVERBAND SCHAUSPIEL                
German Fairness Award for Film & TV

GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2020
Award for Best Documentary

INTERNATIONAL 5 SEEN FILM FESTIVAL
Award for Best Documentary

HESSISCHER FILM- AND CINEMA- AWARD
Newcomer Award for Maryam Zaree

FEST - NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS FESTIVAL 2019
Cineuropa Audience Award for Best Feature Film
Honorable Mention by Golden
Lynx

69. BERLINALE 2019
Kompass-Perspektive-Preis

FESTIVALS

International 5 Seen Festival München, 2019
This Human World Festival Wien, 2019
IDFA Amsterdam, 2019
69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Weltpremiere, 2019
Hot Docs Toronto, 2019
DOKfest München, 2019
ELBE DOCK Dresden, 2019
Biografilm Festival Bologna, 2019
Shanghai IFF, 2019
SWR Doku Festival Stuttgart, 2019
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Zagreb, 2019
FEST - New Directors/ New Films Festival Espinho, 2019

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival Int. de Programmes Audiovisuels
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening: 
Against Gravity (Poland)
El Documental Del Mes (Spain)
New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut:
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Haifa

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival 2017
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Feature Film Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2017
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER in Moscow
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening: 
Against Gravity (Poland), El Documental Del Mes (Spain), New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa

QUOTES

»Zaree is both narrator and protagonist and visualizes immediately the ambivalent emotions she faces during the film. This fact gives the entire film additional depth and authenticity and further a big vividness. Again and again the film finds beautiful symbolic pictures for Zarees search for her own roots. A touching, vivid and truthful film about a young womans search for her own lifestory.« – GERMAN FILM- AND MEDIA ASSESMENT

»Sincere, brave, decisive & touching.« – JURY BERLINALE

»A Highlight« – TAZ

»A great filmmaker announces herself« – FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU


»The film has the potential to challenge people’s stances and get them to consider an unconditional basic income!« – KLAUS KOFLER, FUTUROLOGIST

»A film that today has already documented the world of tomorrow.« – MICHAEL BOHMEYER, GRUNDEINKOMMEN.DE

INFO

RUNNING TIME – 98 minutes
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES – German, English, French, Farsi
SUBTITLES – German, English
LOCATIONS – DEU, FRA, IRN, USA, AUT 
SCREENING FORMAT – DCP, BluRay
SOUND FORMAT – Dolby SRD 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 1,85:1
PICTURES/SEC – 25

Running time: 95/52 minutes
Original languages:
German, English
Subtitle languages:
German, English
Shooting locations:
Germany, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Namibia, Austria
Shooting format: 4K - 5K
Screening format: DCP, BluRay
Aspect ratio: 1:2,39
Pictures/sec: 24
Colour: Colour
Sound: Dolby SRD 5.1

CREW

WRITER & DIRECTOR
Maryam Zaree

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Siri Klug

SOUND RECORDIST
Michael Klöfkorn, Tom Schön

EDITOR
Dieter Pichler

SOUND DESIGN
Rudolf Gottsberger

PRODUCERS
Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski, Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber,  Karin C. Berger

Director & Screenplay: Christian Tod
Cinematography/DOP:
Lars Barthel, Joerg Burger
Editing: Cordula Werner & Elke Groen
Sound & Sounddesign: Peter Rösner
Music: Peter Rösner
Production management:
Andrea Minauf, Janine Hahmann
Commissioning editor ARTE: Kathrin Brinkmann
Commissioning editor ORF: Heinrich Mis
Co-producer: Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Producer: Arash T. Riahi & Karin C. Berger

CAST

Maryam Zaree
Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Kasra Zareh
Kurt Grünberg
Mira Grünberg
Shadi Amin
Sima Boulanger
Marya Sirous
Chahla Chafiq
Haydeh Ravesh
Farah Zadi
Effat Mahbaz
Soraya Zangbari
Chowra Makaremi
Nina Zandkarimi
Sahar Delijani

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