Seven Winters in Tehran
Steffi Niederzoll
2023
About Film
Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. For her, this is just another regular day, however, her life will change forever when he tries to rape her. She stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial results 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
About Director
Born in Nuremberg in 1981, she studied audiovisual media arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the Escuela de Cine y Television in Cuba. Her short films were screened at national and international film festivals such as Berlinale. She participated in various directing master classes and was a scholarship holder at the Cultural Academy Tarabya, Turkey. Together with Shole Pakravan, she wrote the book How to Become a Butterfly about Reyhaneh Jabbari, which was published by Berlin Verlag in 2023. Seven Winters in Tahran is her first feature-length documentary.
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