Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi, Iran, 2019)
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi, Iran, 2019)
Screening and launch of Jacques Bidou’s memoir, Once Upon a Time in Production
Friday 20 November, 18:00–20:30
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Iranian director, Massoud Bakhski won the won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance in 2020 for this tense drama exposing the injustice against women today. Maryam, 22, accidentally kills her 65-year-old husband and is sentenced to death. Her only hope is that his daughter, Mona, will publically forgive her, live, on a hugely popular television show. Under the studio lights, the two women are forced to relive the past.
The epic experience of producing Yalda structures Once Upon a Time in Production, Jacques Bidou’s memoir, now translated into English by Holly Aylett and launched at this screening. Since founding JBA Production in 1987, Bidou has produced more than 100 films with directors including Bakhshi, Raoul Peck, Patricio Guzmán and Tsai Ming-liang. He will introduce the film and afterwards discuss the craft and politics of producing world cinema with Holly Aylett, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck and former editor of Vertigo Magazine
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