Between Revolutions 

(Între revoluții) 

Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran, 2023 (68 min.) 

Romanian Maria and Iranian Zahra met in the 1970s at the University of Bucharest and quickly developed a passionate friendship. Separated at the end of the decade, they managed to stay in touch through an intense series of letters. From the Islamic Revolution to the fall of Ceaușescu, their bond persisted through history, family pressures and conservatism.Vlad Petri’s clever narrative device, which interweaves fiction and documentary, favours voices over faces. His thorough archival work presents an intimate and feminine perspective on history, highlighting the similarities between the two nations and their revolutions that seemed filled with so much promise. 

“The deep bond between two women is used to explore
the empty promise of revolution”— Allan Hunter, Screen Daily