Description
Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. 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.
• Compass-Perspektive Award, Berlinale
• Best Documentary and Best Editing. German Film Awards
• Best Documentary, Bavarian Film Awards
• Prizes at CPH:DOX, BIOGRAFILM and El Gouna IFF
About the director:
Steffi Niederzoll
Director. She studied audiovisual media arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and the Escuela de Cine y Television in Cuba (EICTV) from 2001 to 2007. Her short films Petuhtantes (2004), Como si el paisaje pasara (2005), One Long Summer (2006), Lea (2008) have successfully screened at numerous renowned national and international film festivals such as Berlinale. She made her first full-length documentary Seven Winters in Tehran in 2023. Her second feature In Between is in post-production.