Majid Bakhtiari

Seven Days (2025)

The imprisoned Iranian women's rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision. ...

Sieben Tage (2025)

Rhinegold (2022)

Xatar's way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring. From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar Hajabi emigrated to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and has to start right at the bottom. There are opportuni ...

Tomorrow We Are Free (2019)

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several years in the German Democratic Republic with his wife, chemical engineer Beate and their mutual daughter, hears the call from his homeland and returns to Teh ...

Ararat (2023)

Zeynep has caused a traffic accident in Berlin. She escapes to her parents' home in Turkey where her self-destructive and sexually assertive behaviour infuriates more than just her family. Looming above them like a portent is the dormant volcano Ararat. ...