NEWS
PRISONERS OF FATE was awarded the Zürich Film Prize 2024 for "Best Documentary Film"!
PRISONERS OF FATE was awarded the PRIX CONVERGENCES MIGRATIONS at the JEAN ROUCH FILMFESTIVAL in Paris!
PRISONERS OF FATE is screened in May as part of the international Competition of the JEAN ROUCH FILMFESTIVAL in Paris
PRISONERS OF FATE is nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2024!
Interview with Director Mehdi Sahebi
PRISONERS OF FATE selected for the Solothurn Film Festival 2024 and nominated for the PRIX DE SOLEURE!
Screenings:
January 18th, 20:45 PM, Landhaus
January 21th, 17:30 PM, Reithalle
https://www.solothurnerfilmtage.ch/de/festival/programm/prisoners-of-fate
PRISONERS OF FATE officially selected for Locarno International Film Festival 2023, Semaine de la Critique
Screenings:
August 6th, 11:00 AM, La Sala (World Premiere)
August 7th, 09:00 AM, Palacinema 1
MEHDI SAHEBI
Film Director
Mehdi Sahebi was born in Iran and came to Switzerland at the age of twenty. He studied ethnology with a focus on visual anthropology, history and international law at the University of Zurich and received his PhD with his award-winning documentary film "Time of Closure" (2006). The film won the SRG SSR prize at the 2006 Locarno Int. Film Festival (Semaine de la Critique) and the jury and audience awards at the Entrevue Film Festival Belfort. In 2016, his second feature documentary MIRR premiered at the Duisburger Filmwoche, where it won the support grant of the city of Duisburg as well as numerous other awards at international film festivals. His latest work PRISONERS OF FATE was nominated for the Swiss Film Award 2024 ("Best Documentary Film") and is the winner of the Zurich Film Prize 2024 ("Best Documentary"). Sahebi works as a director, cinematographer, editor and lecturer in documentary film.
