In "Seven Days" the dilemmas of an Iranian woman, mother and civil rights activist

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An Iranian who has lived in Germany for many years, Ali Samadi Ahadi has made a first feature film strongly inspired by two great figures of Iranian cultural and political resistance. Narges Mohammadi, civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2023 , whose life has been transformed for thirty years into a prison hell by the authorities of her country. As well as the filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, author of Seeds of the Wild Fig Tree (2024) , who ended up requesting asylum in Germany on the occasion of the presentation of this very beautiful film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Seven Days , written by Rasoulof, features Myriam, a political prisoner who is granted a week's medical leave, suffering from heart failure. Cut off from her family for too long – her husband and two children live in Berlin – she lets her relatives arrange a meeting for her, who are waiting for her after many years of separation in a Turkish mountain village on the border with Iran.

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