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YALDA - A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS
by Massoud Bakhshi 89 minutes - Iran - France - Germany - Switzerland - Luxembourg Language : Farsi |
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Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Forough Ghajebeglou, Fereshteh Hosseini 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. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past. PRODUCTION JACQUES BIDOU, MARIANNE DUMOULIN (JBA PRODUCTION) COPRODUCERS NIKO FILM (Nicole Gerhards - Germany), CLOSE UP FILMS (Joëlle Bertossa & Flavia Zanon - Switzerland), AMOUR FOU (Bady Minck & Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu - Luxembourg), SHORTCUT FILMS (Georges Schoucair - Lebanon), TITA B PRODUCTIONS (Fred Premel - France), ALI MOSAFFA PRODUCTIONS (Ali Mosaffa - Iran), ZDF Arte, RTS SRG SS, VOO BeTV SALES PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL |
SCREENINGS AT BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday 22 February - 16:00 @ Cubix 8 - Press screening Sunday 23 February - 12:30 @ Zoo Palast 1 – Official screening Tuesday 25 February - 17:00 @ Cubix 8 Wednesday 26 February - 15:30 @ b-ware! Ladenkino Friday 28 February - 13:00 @ Urania Saturday 29 February - 14:00 @ CinemaxX 1 TALENTS ATTENDING Massoud Bakhshi (director) : Feb. 21-26 Sadaf Asgari (main actress, Maryam) : Feb. 22- Behnaz Jafari (main actress, Mona) : Feb. 22-25 Babak Karimi (actor, Ayat) : Feb. 22-23 Fereshteh Hosseini (actor, Anar) : Feb. 22- Julian Atanassov (DOP), Jacques Comets (editor), Helder Loureiro Alves da Silva (lighting) Jacques Bidou (producer), Marianne Dumoulin (producer) : Feb. 20-28
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