Born.In.Evin.2019.720p.AMZN.WEBRip.800MB.x264-GalaxyRG_Subtitles01.ENG Subtitles

At 00:00:17,788, Character said: ("Faith Hymn" by
Beautiful Chorus)

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At 00:00:34,988, Character said: - A legend
in the Talmud says

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At 00:00:37,321, Character said: that when a child is born, it
carries a candle over its head

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At 00:00:41,654, Character said: as a symbol that it
knows everything.

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At 00:00:46,088, Character said: In the moment of its birth,

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At 00:00:48,021, Character said: an angel blows the candle out

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At 00:00:50,888, Character said: and the child forgets it all.

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At 00:00:53,754, Character said: During the path of its life

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At 00:00:55,721, Character said: it must learn to remember
everything it had forgotten.

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At 00:01:00,254, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:01:34,754, Character said: ("Learning" By Perfume Genius)

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At 00:01:39,754, Character said: - Mommy.

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At 00:01:47,821, Character said: It was 1991.

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At 00:01:50,288, Character said: My mom Nargess was 26 years old,

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At 00:01:52,754, Character said: and she was living alone
with me in Germany.

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At 00:01:58,421, Character said: Momma.

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At 00:01:59,354, Character said: I also had a father,

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At 00:02:00,888, Character said: but he couldn't be with
us for some reason,

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At 00:02:03,554, Character said: that's why we would send him
this video message to Iran.

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At 00:02:08,588, Character said: Iran was the country
we were from,

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At 00:02:12,088, Character said: but I could neither
remember Iran nor my father.

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At 00:02:16,821, Character said: * Until you take
your last breath *

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At 00:02:20,788, Character said: * But you

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At 00:02:21,821, Character said: - Two years later,

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At 00:02:23,288, Character said: I just came back from summer
camp, my mother told me,

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At 00:02:25,921, Character said: "Your father Kasra, is
coming to see us soon."

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At 00:02:30,088, Character said: And there he was, standing on
the other side of the street,

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At 00:02:33,354, Character said: dressed all in white.

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At 00:02:35,321, Character said: And I ran into his arms
as if I had just seen him

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At 00:02:38,321, Character said: before the summer break.

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At 00:02:42,088, Character said: The truth was last
time I did see him

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At 00:02:45,088, Character said: it was in one of the most
horrible places in the world.

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At 00:02:49,488, Character said: But, of course, I
didn't know about that.

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At 00:02:52,288, Character said: * No one answer your prayers

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At 00:02:55,488, Character said: * Until you take
off that dress *

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At 00:02:56,754, Character said: - Today,
I'm 35 years old

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At 00:02:59,321, Character said: and I know my father
couldn't be with us

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At 00:03:01,421, Character said: because he was trapped in a
political prison called Evin.

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At 00:03:04,988, Character said: I also know

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At 00:03:07,888, Character said: I was born in that prison.

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At 00:03:10,088, Character said: And that's basically
everything I know.

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At 00:03:20,088, Character said: I mean I know I'm an actress

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At 00:03:21,554, Character said: and I'm pretty good at telling
other people's stories,

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At 00:03:24,621, Character said: but I'm at a point in my life

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At 00:03:26,354, Character said: where I don't wanna hide
behind those stories anymore.

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At 00:03:29,421, Character said: I wanna find out
what my story is.

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At 00:03:34,088, Character said: But where in the world to start?

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At 00:03:47,688, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:05:07,688, Character said: For a long time I had been upset
with my work as an actress.

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At 00:05:12,388, Character said: I was tired playing
those cliches of refugees

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At 00:05:14,621, Character said: who fled from made-up horrors.

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At 00:05:17,554, Character said: I had been a refugee myself

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At 00:05:19,421, Character said: and I had a story to tell.

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At 00:05:21,721, Character said: I mean born in prison.

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At 00:05:23,421, Character said: Who in the world is
born in prison and why?

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At 00:05:26,488, Character said: The problem was, I had
no clue what my story was

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At 00:05:30,221, Character said: and finding it out,
actually terrified me.

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At 00:05:34,121, Character said: What I knew were bits and pieces

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At 00:05:36,121, Character said: my mother with
publicly speak about.

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At 00:05:38,554, Character said: Yeah, that's my mom today.

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At 00:05:41,988, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:07:03,488, Character said: (audience applauding)

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At 00:07:04,721, Character said: It is really true,
I mean what a story.

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At 00:07:07,688, Character said: My mom was somehow
released from prison,

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At 00:07:10,088, Character said: fled Iran as a single mother,
wrote a PhD in psychology,

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At 00:07:14,454, Character said: and became the first
female migrant candidate

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At 00:07:17,154, Character said: for mayor in Germany.

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At 00:07:19,554, Character said: It's crazy.

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At 00:07:21,521, Character said: 20 years ago she
met my stepdad Kurt,

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At 00:07:23,688, Character said: and gave birth to
my sister Mira.

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At 00:07:26,421, Character said: (audience applauding)

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At 00:07:41,788, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:07:46,288, Character said: That's my stepdad Kurt.

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At 00:07:47,954, Character said: He's a psychoanalyst and a
child of Holocaust survivors.

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At 00:07:51,721, Character said: He's a famous researcher on
how trauma is being passed on

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At 00:07:55,154, Character said: from one generation to another.

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At 00:07:58,454, Character said: Kurt's work has always been
a huge inspiration to me.

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At 00:08:01,254, Character said: Since 15 years, he meets with
Shoah survivors every week,

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At 00:08:05,154, Character said: listening to them,
supporting to them,

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At 00:08:07,521, Character said: eating lots of cake and
sharing a couple of jokes.

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At 00:08:13,354, Character said: - She's so young.

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At 00:08:14,288, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:08:15,221, Character said: She's so young.

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At 00:08:21,554, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:08:26,988, Character said: - My sister
Mira is much younger

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At 00:08:28,988, Character said: and was born with a disability.

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At 00:08:32,554, Character said: So in my family we say
we have g***t them all.

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At 00:08:36,088, Character said: People with disabilities,
foreigners and Jews.

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At 00:08:42,521, Character said: My mom and I get
along super well,

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At 00:08:45,154, Character said: but we just can't
talk about the past.

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At 00:08:47,888, Character said: Three decades of silence

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At 00:08:49,621, Character said: and not once I had asked her,

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At 00:08:51,454, Character said: "Mom, what has happened
to us in prison?"

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At 00:08:55,288, Character said: And not once did she tell me,

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At 00:08:57,188, Character said: "Maryam, I think we should
talk about something."

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At 00:09:02,788, Character said: On a summer holiday I took
my courage in both hands

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At 00:09:05,721, Character said: and told her about my plan to
do a movie about our story.

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At 00:09:10,088, Character said: I even showed her a
trailer I had made

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At 00:09:11,854, Character said: and hoped that it would
open up the conversation.

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At 00:09:14,421, Character said: That we would finally
talk and cry a little

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At 00:09:16,788, Character said: and everything would be said.

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At 00:09:18,921, Character said: And in fact, she was very moved,

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At 00:09:21,188, Character said: but eventually the
conversation did not come up.

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At 00:09:32,088, Character said: (speaking in foreign language)

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At 00:10:11,221, Character said: It was too painful
for my mom to talk

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At 00:10:13,888, Character said: and at the same time, I
couldn't go on living in denial

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At 00:10:16,954, Character said: of the questions I had anymore.

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At 00:10:19,088, Character said: I had been in
psychoanalysis for years

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At 00:10:21,354, Character said: and I knew I was
pretty much sane

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At 00:10:23,154, Character said: and this wasn't about
me finding myself.

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At 00:10:26,354, Character said: Something about my birth
was just not personal

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At 00:10:29,488, Character said: and I had to find
out what it was.

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At 00:10:39,154, Character said: So what is it that I do know?

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At 00:10:41,554, Character said: I found this picture of my
mom before she fled Iran.

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At 00:10:44,554, Character said: She was 19 and already my mom

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At 00:10:47,254, Character said: and that wasn't a costume.

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At 00:10:48,988, Character said: She had no choice whether she
wanted to wear that or not.

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At 00:10:51,954, Character said: The law forced her too.

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At 00:10:54,854, Character said: In school I learned that my
parents grew up in a monarchy

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At 00:10:59,254, Character said: and the ruler and dictator
of the country was the Shah.

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At 00:11:02,621, Character said: Under the Shah, my
parents were allowed

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At 00:11:04,388, Character said: to wear whatever they liked.

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At 00:11:05,954, Character said: But everything else, like
freedom of speech, was denied.

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At 00:11:11,988, Character said: - Could
a journalist in Iran

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At 00:11:14,121, Character said: dare to criticize His Majesty?

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At 00:11:18,154, Character said: - He could, but I don't
think that he would.

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At 00:11:23,921, Character said: - The Shah and a
small minority of the country

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At 00:11:26,321, Character said: lived in fame and glory,

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At 00:11:29,421, Character said: while the rest of the country,
was struggling with poverty.

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At 00:11:34,454, Character said: My parents were against that.

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At 00:11:36,154, Character said: They listened to John
Lennon, read Marx

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