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mo 14 nov 8:00 pm Murnau Filmtheater

BEING BORN
[BE DONYA AMADAN]

by Mohsen Abdolvahab

Iran 2016 91 min original version with German and English subtitles

European premiere

Script: Mohsen Abdolvahab, DoP: Mohammad Ahmadi, Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahab, Production: Kavir Film Production, Producer: Mohammad Ahmadi, Cast: Hedayat Hashemi, Elham Korda, Sepahrad Farzami, Reza Mortazavi, Behnaz Jafari, Morteza Nasim Sobhan, Roya Javidnia, Pooneh Abdolkarimzadeh, Mehdi Amiri

Pari and Farhad are a middle-class family who are both involved in theater and cinema. They love each other and are happy with their son, though Pari, unwantedly becomes pregnant. Farhad insists on abortion but Pari believes the abortion is inhuman and cannot accept her husband’s idea. A baby, who has to possibly make a family life happier, causes some serious changes in their situation.

"In BEING BORN, Mohsen Abdolvahab looks at the dynamics of a long-term relationship, which is unexpectedly put to the test. With his psychological well-written characters he examines carefully different aspects of responsibility, dependence and freedom." (Amos Borchert, curator of the "Focus Iran" section)

Biography: Mohsen Abdolvahab, born in 1957 in Tehran/Iran, is a graduate of Film Editing from IRIB College of Tehran. He started his film career by editing documentary and short films and then he turned into making documentaries and mostly docu-fiction films. His films received several national and international awards, including IDFA’s Silver Wolf Prize for THE WIVES OF HAJ-ABBAS in 2001. He co-directed two feature films, GILANEH (2004) and MAINLINE (2006) with Rakshan Bani-Etemad as well. PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB (2010) was his first independent feature film which was screened in more than 30 international festivals and brought him ten awards as well. BEING BORN is his fourth feature film.

Filmography (selection): 2001 THE WIVES OF HAJ-ABBAS, 2010 PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB, 2014 THE PRESIDENT, 2016 BEING BORN

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