Born in Evin

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to seek out out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one among the foremost notorious political prisons within the world. Exactly forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and therefore the Islamic Republic declared. within the 1980’s Khomeini , the so-called religionist , had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted and murdered. Among them the filmmaker’s parents who, after years in prison, managed to hunt asylum in Germany. The family never talked about their persecution and imprisonment. Maryam Zaree faces the decades-long silence and explores her own questions on the place and therefore the circumstances of her birth. tt5838526