Sieben Winter in Teheran (Seven Winter in Tehran)
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Tehran, 7 July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, is an interior designer who has a business meeting with a new client. For her, this is just another regular day, however her life will change forever when he attempts to rape her. She stabs him in self-defense and flees the place. Later that day, she is arrested and soon charged with murder. Despite much evidence pointing to self-defense, Reyhaneh doesn’t stand a chance in court as her attacker was a well-connected and powerful man who is – even after his death – protected by patriarchal society. Reyhaneh is sentenced to death.
Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh’s family, their testimonies, the letters written by Reyhaneh in prison and other archives, the film retraces her trial, detention and fate of this woman who became a symbol of resistance in the country.
DIRECTORY
She was born in Nuremberg in 1981. She studied audiovisual and media arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and the Escuela de Cine y Television in Cuba (EICTV) from 2001-2007. Her short films have screened at numerous national and international film festivals such as Berlinale. She participated in various directing masterclasses and was a scholarship holder at the Cultural Academy Tarabya, Turkey. In addition to her film work, she is also involved in interdisciplinary artistic works. She was a member of the core group of the collective “1000 Gestalten”, which caused a worldwide sensation with its performance during the G20 summit in Hamburg. Her collective works have been presented at the Brecht Festival, the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and Vejle, Denmark, among others. Together with Shole Pakravan, she wrote the book How to Become a Butterfly about Reyhaneh Jabbari, which will be published by Berlin Verlag in 2023. Seven Winters in Tehran is her first feature-length documentary.
