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 titular character, a teacher in solitary confinement who is being forced to either make a televised confession or remain locked up in a three-square-meter prison cell.
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Mohammadi spoke to Variety about transposing the hell she went through in jail to the big screen.
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