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Drama
2020
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Fiction
Yalda (A Night for Forgiveness)
Year of release in Luxembourg
2020
Year of release in Luxembourg
2020
Director
Massoud Bakhshi
Luxembourg producer
AMOUR FOU LUXEMBOURG
In co-production with
- JBA Production (FR)
- NiKo Film (DE)
- Close Up Films (CH)
- Schortcut Films (LB)
- Tita B Productions (FR)
- Ali Mosaffa Productions (IR)
Script
Massoud Bakhshi
Original version
- Persian with French / English / German subtitles
Duration
90 minutes
Type of financing
- AIDE FINANCIÈRE SÉLECTIVE (AFS) À LA PRODUCTION CINEWORLD
International sales
Pyramide International
T +33 1 42 96 02 20
sales@pyramidefilms.com
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sadaf Asgari (Maryam)
- Behnaz Jafari (Mona)
- Babak Karimi (Ayat, the producer)
- Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (The mother)
- Arman Darvish (Omid, the TV host)
- Fereshteh Hosseini (Anar)
- Zakieh Behbahani (TV director)
- Ramona Shah (Police Officer)
- Faghiheh Soltani (Firouz)
- Ehsan Abbasi (Psychologist)
- Mehdi Aboohamzeh (Amir)
- Emre Tetikel (Agaf)
Crew
- Mahmoud Bakhshi Artistic Direction
- Leila Naghde Pari Decor
- Rana Amini Costume
- Leila Sani & Mona Sani Makeup Artist
- Dana Farzanehpour Sound
- Julian Atanassov Cinematography
- Jacques Comets Editing
- Leila Naghdi Pari Production Design
- Forough Ghajabagli (Keshavarz)
Synopsis
In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona (37), Nasser’s daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive Maryam. This TV show does exist in Iran, it has inspired this fiction.
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