Seven Days
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4 May20:00TurnhoutUGC
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26 Apr14:30BruggeCinema Lumière
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27 Apr20:00BruggeCinema Lumière
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30 Apr11:15TurnhoutUGC
Maryam, a political activist, is imprisoned in Iran. After being granted a rare medical leave, her brother and husband devise a plan to smuggle her out of Iran. Her family is waiting for her her at the Turkish border. She is faced with a heart-wrenching choice: to put her family first, or to continue her fight for human rights and democracy.
The film’s strong screenplay was co-written by the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who himself fled Iran last year. He is able to describe the sense of suffocation of the main character first hand. The acting is particularly strong, especially that of the actress portraying Maryam. The vastness of the snow-covered mountains on the Turkish-Iranian border, in contrast to the claustrophobic rooms of where she is staying, highlights the dilemma Maryam faces.
- direction
- Ali Samadi Ahadi
- cast
- Vishka Asayesh, Majid Bakhtiari, Melika Foroutan
- duration
- 110 min
- year
- 2024
- country
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- language
- Persian
- Subtitles
- Dutch
festival
Regisseur
"A stunning survival drama." - Filmfest Report