YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS

By Massoud BAKHSHI

KINO MEDITERAN - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, CROATIA, Ex-Yugoslavia

Drama - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2020
World Cinema Dramatic Competition World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020
Generation
Warsaw FF 2020
Discoveries
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, IRAN, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, LUXEMBOURG, LEBANON
    • Languages
    • FARSI
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Massoud BAKHSHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Marianne DUMOULIN (JBA PRODUCTION), Jacques BIDOU (JBA PRODUCTION)
    • Synopsis
    • Maryam (22) is sentenced to death after killing her husband Nasser (65). In Iran, where the law of retaliation prevails, a victim’s family can forgive the killer. For Maryam, this pardon plays out on the country’s most popular reality show on the day of Yalda, the longest night of the year, and can save her life.