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.

Overview

Category Documentary
Financing Minoritäre Koproduktion
Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
Format DCP, 96 Min
Release 21.02.2020
Distribution Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions 1.552
Pay TV Release from 21.02.2021
Free TV Release from 21.08.2021
Television investment 77.000 €
percentage of production costs Austria 40 %
Anteil an gesamten Herstellungskosten 13 %
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

Details:

Script-concept Maryam Zaree
Director Maryam Zaree
DOP Siri Klug
Editor Dieter Pichler
Sound engineer Michel Klöfkorn
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Set design Paul Bauer
Production manager Agnes Jüneman, Jennifer Egen
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
Completion 14.08.2020
Producer Austria Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Karin C. Berger