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Eva Mulvad
DK 2019 58' 80' 110'
⚬ Human Interest ⚬ Human Rights
LOVE CHILD offers a poignant portrait of Leila and Sahand, an Iranian couple who, outlawed for their love, flee the country with their four-year-old son, Mani. In Tehran, they committed the crime of having a secret affair while being married to other people and were forbidden to get divorced. Neither could they acknowledge that Mani was an illegitimate child since adultery can be punished with execution in Iran. Intimately filmed over five years, we follow their quest to be together, battling with both Iranian and European law, their lives in limbo.
Director | Eva Mulvad |
Producer | Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær |
Co-Producer | Ilona Tolmunen |
Executive Producers | Eva Mulvad, Mikala Krogh, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, Henrik Grunnet |
Production Company | Danish Documentary |
Co-Production Company | MADE |
Cinematography | Eva Mulvad, Lea Glob, Morten Ranmar, Meryem Yavuz, Esben Grage, Henrik Ibsen |
Editor | Adam Nielsen |
Music | Jacob Bro, Thomas Knak |
Sound | Heikki Kossi |
Documentary Gold Hugo Award | Chicago International Film Festival 2019 |
Special Mention | DOCNYC 2019 |
Best Editing | Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer 2020 |
Best Feature Length Documentary | IDF West Lake International Documentary Festival 2020 |
Silver Nanook Award for Discovery of New Subjects and New Heroes | IDFF Flahertiana 2020 |
Toronto IFF 2019 |
Chicago IFF 2019 |
DOC NYC 2019 |
IDFA 2019 |
Budapest IDFF 2020 |
FIPADOC 2020 |
Göteborg IFF 2020 |
DOK.fest München 2020 |
Biografilm 2020 |
DocEdge 2020 |
CPH:DOX 2020 |
DocAviv 2020 |
DocPoint Helsinki 2020 |
Docs Against Gravity 2020 |
FIPADOC 2020 |
Shanghai IFF 2020 |
Al Jazeera Balkans Doc FF 2020 |
| Runtimes | 58' 80' 110' |
| Spoken Languages | Farsi, Azerbaijani, Turkish, English |
| Production Countries | Denmark |
In 2011 Eva Mulvad (born 1972) won the prestigious, Danish ”Roos Award ” granted for her entire body of work. Mulvad graduated from the Danish Film School in 2001 and by 2006 she had her international break-through with ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS, which focused on the female politician Malalai Joya’s political campaign ahead of the first democratic elections in Afghanistan 2005. The film won the Silver Wolf Award at IDFA and subsequently the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
With her intrinsic flair for drama and with many international awards in the baggage, Eva Mulvad is one of the most prominent Danish filmmakers. Mulvad’s filmography includes among others the wellknown family-chronicle entitled THE GOOD LIFE (2010). The film was shown at IDFA and went on to win the award for Best Documentary at Kalovy Vary International Film Festival. She has recently toured the world with the film A MODERN MAN, about classical violinist Charlie Siem and her film A CHERRY TALE premiered at CPH:DOX in 2019, an amazing story about entrepreneurship in modern time.
