The Witness

In Iran, Tarlan, a retired dance teacher, witnesses a murder committed by a prominent government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must choose between yielding to political pressure or risking her reputation and livelihood to seek justice.
Data
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- Digital, 110 Min
- Release
- 16.05.2025
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 2.430
- Funding Film Institute
- 100.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 65 %
- Share of total production costs
- 13 %
- Funding ÖFI+
- 45.000 €
- Share of total production costs
- 6 %
- Television investment
- 60.000 €
- Co-production
Arthood Film (DE, 62%), Sky films
- International funding
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- Funding program
- ÖFI, ÖFI+
- Film location
- Iran
- Shooting time
- September - November 2023
- Days of shooting
- 39
- Completion
- Summer 2024
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
- Producer
- Said Nur Akkus, Silvana Santamaria
- Producer Austria
- Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
- Director
- Nader Saeivar
- Script
- Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar
- DOP
- Rozbeh Raeigha
- Editor
- Jafar Panahi
- Sound engineer
- Abdolreza Heydari, Iman Bazyar
- Costume design
- Leila Naghdi
- Set design
- Leila Naghdi
- Music
- Karwan Marouf
- Green Film Consultant
- Valentin Renoldner
- Cast
- Maryam Bobani (Tarlan), Nader Naderpour, Abbas Imani, Ghazal Shojaei
- Production manager
- Saman Iranzadeh
- International distribution
- Arthood Entertainment
- German Title
- The Witness
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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