Tag: Life

Mediterrane 2024: The Awards

Posted by TFV Staff | Jul 1, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Mediterrane 2024 |

Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuz’s ‘Life’ (‘Hayat’) with its caustic social critique and a quietly angry feminist message won the top prize at the second edition of the Mediterrane Film Festival.

Seven Winters in Tehran

Posted by Deborah Young | Dec 16, 2023 | Festivals, El Gouna 2023 |

The cruel and gripping story of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 19-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man who attempted to rape her, unfolds like a thriller in Steffi Niederzoll’s documentary recreation, ‘Seven Winters in Tehran’.