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In this story, a young woman convicted of the murder of her much older husband faces the next-of-kin of the victim (his daughter), who has the power to grant her forgiveness and save the perpetrator from the death penalty.
Dec 11, 2020 · Yalda: A Night for Forgivness: Directed by Massoud Bakhshi. With Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy. In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death.
- (1.1K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Massoud Bakhshi
- 2020-12-11
Dec 11, 2020 · The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Yalda” unfurls like a production from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, the two-time Oscar Best International Feature Film winner (for 2011’s “ A Separation ” and 2016’s “ The Salesman ”).
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- (22)
- Sadaf Asgari
- Massoud Bakhshi
- Drama
Maryam accidentally kills her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Nasser's daughter, Mona. All Mona has to do is appear on national TV and forgive Maryam. Based on a real-life TV show in Iran.
Dec 11, 2020 · On Yalda Night, a Persian winter solstice celebration, Maryam (Sadaf Asgari) leaves prison to attend the late evening program “Joy of Forgiveness” to ask the adult daughter of the man she...
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Dec 11, 2020 · Yalda: A Night of Forgiveness is a riveting and thoroughly engrossing satire of Iranian culture and the work-arounds built into a theocracy, ways of ignoring calls for reform and the shedding of “tradition.”
