»Sieben Winter in Teheran« – Interkulturkino

In the organizer's words:

In the summer of 2007, 19-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari stabs an older man in self-defense during an attempted rape. In 2009, she is sentenced to death and serves seven years in prison. Her family hired lawyers and made the case public, but despite all international political and human rights efforts, the Iranian judiciary insisted on the "right to blood revenge": if Reyhaneh did not withdraw her accusations against the man, his family could demand her death. Reyhaneh insists on the truth and is sentenced to death.

German director Steffi Niederzoll met Reyhaneh Jabbari's mother Shole Pakravan in Istanbul in 2017, where she had fled with the audio and visual material that provides the basis for this moving, multi-award-winning film. Model maker Gali Blay recreated the locations for which no film material was available, and the well-known Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider) took over the narrator's voice from Reyhaneh Jabbari.

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We are delighted to be able to talk to director Steffi Niederzoll after the screening about an involuntary heroine who paid for her fight for women's rights with her life - how the film came about and about its ominous and enduring topicality.