"Seven Winters in Tehran" Film

D/FR Protected content , 97 min; OmU;
Tehran in the summer of Protected content 19-year-old student Reyhaneh Jabbari has a business appointment with a new client for her part-time job as an interior designer. When he tries to rape her while she is viewing the premises, she stabs him in self-defense. On the same day, she is arrested for murder and later sentenced to death in court. She spent seven years in prison, fighting for justice with her family. Despite national and international efforts, the Iranian judiciary sticks to its verdict, citing the "right to blood revenge". As long as Reyhaneh does not recant her statement, the man's family can demand her death. Reyhaneh does not retract her statement and is executed at the age of 26.

The film reconstructs the trial and imprisonment with the help of secretly recorded videos, letters that Reyhaneh wrote in prison and testimonies from her family. It traces the fate of the young woman who became a symbol of resistance and the fight for women's rights in Iran.