Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi - known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows," "Travelogue" and "Son-Mother" - is at the Berlinale with "Roya," about a woman who, just like herself, has been detained in Tehran's Evin prison for political prisoners and intellectuals. In the Panorama section entry, Turkey's Melisa Sözen ("Winter Sleep") plays the [...]
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Mahnaz Mohammadi on Depicting Iran's Evin Prison in Berlin Film 'Roya': 'You Have to Tell the Story Through the Displacement, Silence and Rupture'
February 14, 2026
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