Între revoluții

Synopsis

Romania in the late 1970s. Zahra and Maria form a close bond while studying medicine together at university. But when Zahra senses a wind of change from her homeland, she quits university and returns to Tehran. Over the following decade, the two friends correspond and report on their daily lives as women fighting to have their voice heard in rapidly diverging countries.

Made entirely out of archive material, Între revoluții blurs the lines between documentary and fiction to explore the collapse of political systems in Iran and Romania.

Biography and Films

Vlad Petri (Romania, 1979) graduated in cinematography from the Universitatea Națională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică in Bucharest and completed a master's degree in visual and media anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

His films, straddling the line between documentary and fiction, have been screened at international film festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Sarajevo and Jihlava. He has won three Gopo Romanian Film Awards: Best Debut for Bucureşti, unde eşti (2014) and Best Short Documentary for The Deer Passed in Front of Me and The Same Dream. Între revoluții won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale Forum.