"Seven Days": To Leave or to Stay, the Dilemma of Iranian Resistance
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Loosely inspired by the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, this film directed by an Iranian filmmaker living in Germany depicts the dilemma of a woman forced to choose between her fight and her family.
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In Seven Days , Maryam undertakes a perilous journey across the snow-capped mountains that separate Iran from Turkey. The Workshop Distribution
Mohammad Rasoulof was still living in Iran when he sent the script for Seven Days to Ali Samadi Ahadi, who had been exiled for a long time in Germany. Loosely based on the life of Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, it depicts the moral dilemma of a woman, released from prison for seven days on medical grounds, who must choose between going into exile or staying in her country and continuing to resist. A story that echoes, in a premonitory way, the decision that the director of Seeds of the Wild Fig Tree himself will have to make.
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