Film & Discussion w/ Maryam Zaree

Join us on Wednesday, February 21st, @ 7:00 PM at the Goethe-Institut for a special screening of the multi-award-winning documentary BORN IN EVIN, followed by a discussion with Filmmaker and Villa Aurora Fellow Maryam Zaree and Film Critic Katarina Hedrén. 

This screening is part of the long-standing cooperation with the Villa Aurora, where Villa Aurora Fellows showcase their projects (past, present, and future) at the Goethe-Institut.  

Presented within the context of the exhibition INSIDE|OUTSIDE, on view from February 8th -March 8th, 2024, at the Goethe-Insitut.

Admission is free with RSVP via Eventbrite below. SCHEDULE:
6:30pm Doors open.
7:00pm Welcome and introductions
7:10pm BORN IN EVIN
8:50pm Discussion with Maryam Zaree
9:30pm End of Event

Secure, free Parking is available at Metro/Retail parking structure with rear entrance to the Goethe-Institut located at
674 S. Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90057

BORN IN EVIN
Germany, Austria (2019) 98 min. German/Farsi/French with English Subtitles
Director: Maryam Zaree, Screenplay: Maryam Zaree, Camera: Siri Klug, 
Editor: Dieter Pichler, Sound: Michel Klofkörn und Tom Schön, 
Sounddesign: Rudolf Gottsberger, Producer: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski, Co-Producers: Karin C. Berger, Arash T. Riahi, 
Production Company: Tondowski Films GbR, with Golden Girls Films.

In this powerful documentary, filmmaker, and actress Maryam Zaree (4 BLOCKS, UNDINE ) embarks on a journey to uncover the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Through an exceptionally personal lens, Zaree examines Iran’s oppressive regime in the 1980s that saw tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted, and murdered. Through a series of emotional interviews with sociologists, psychologists, human rights activists, other children born in prison, and her parents, who sought asylum in Germany after years of imprisonment, Zaree overcomes a decades-long silence to reveal the true extent of her family’s unimaginable experience, as of an entire exiled generation.

 

SELECT AWARDS:
German Film Award 2020: Best Documentary, Berlinale 2019: Compass-Perspektive-Award, Cineuropa 2019: Audience Award Best Feature Film, 
Fünf Seen FF 2019: Best Documentary, Hessischer Film- and Cinema-Award: Newcomer Award (Maryam Zaree).

© Maryam Zaree is an actress, writer, and filmmaker. She was born in 1983 in the political prison Evin in Tehran. When she was two, her mother fled with her to Frankfurt am Main. She has appeared in many cinema and television films, including Christian Petzold's Transit, the series 4 Blocks, and Systemsprenger by Nora Fingscheidt. Her first feature film, the documentary Born in Evin, premiered at the 2019 Berlinale and screened in over 40 countries. Together with Carolin Emcke and Lena Gorelik, she developed the reading tour "‘Is That a Human Being?’ – Against Forgetting” with texts by Shoah survivors.
 
© Katarina Hedrén is a Swedish film programmer and film critic of Ethiopian origin, who has worked with film festivals and outlets across the globe. 







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Presented as part of  the long-standing cooperation with the Villa Aurora, where Villa Aurora Fellows showcase their projects (past, present, and future) here at the Goethe-Institut.