Born in Evin

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstancessurrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.

Category Documentary
Financing Minority coproduction
Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
Format DCP, 96 Min
Release 21.02.2020
Distribution Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions 1.750
Viewers 135.000
Funding Film Institute 86.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs 40 %
Share of total production costs 13 %
Television investment 77.000 €
Co-production Tondowski Films (DE, 66%)
International funding Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, BKM, Hessenfilm und Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, DFFF
Festivals & Awards (Selection) 69. BERLINALE (February 2019): Perspektive Deutsches Kino

End of Retention Period

first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service 12.12.2021
DVD/VoD 08.05.2020
Pay TV 21.02.2021
Free TV 21.08.2021

Gender & Diversity

Details:

Script-concept Maryam Zaree
Director Maryam Zaree
DOP Siri Klug
Editor Dieter Pichler
Sound engineer Michel Klöfkorn
Set design Paul Bauer
Production manager Agnes Jüneman, Jennifer Egen
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF (kleines Fernsehspiel)
Film location Deutschland, Frankreich, USA, England, Österreich
Shooting time March - November 2017
Days of shooting 27
Start of shooting 04.03.2017
Completion Spring 2019
Producer Austria Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Karin C. Berger