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Born in Evin
Nomination 2022
CIVIS VIDEO AWARD – Information
| Autorin : | Maryam Zaree |
| Editorial: | Burkhard Althoff (ZDF), Susanne Spellitz (ORF) |
| Direction: | Maryam Zaree |
| Production: | ZDF |
| Producer: | Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski (Tondowski Films) |
| Co-Producer: | Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Karin C. Berger (Golden Girl Films) |
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Director Maryam Zaree was born in Iran’s most notorious prison. In Evin prison, Ayatollah Khomeini’s henchmen abused and killed political opponents, as those of the Shah’s regime had done before. The current government also uses the facility to imprison, torture and murder critics. After years behind bars, Maryam’s parents escaped and found a new home in Germany. The filmmaker tries to find out why the family never talked about the circumstances of her birth and what happened to children with a similar fate.
Excerpt from the jury’s statement
Maryam Zaree tells her own story, which points far beyond her personal individual fate – to the larger contexts of flight, trauma and grief. This is both moving and illuminating. Alongside her own plight is a stubborn will to know and a powerful performance that breaks free of routine notions of what migration stories should look like.
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