Beautiful City

Akbar (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh) is eighteen and has just been moved from a juvenile rehabilitation centre to prison, where he will wait for the day he is executed for a murder committed at sixteen. His friend A'la (Babak Ansari) sets out to win over the victim's family, whose consent is the only thing that can stop it. Asghar Farhadi turns a legal clause into a question of what forgiveness can be asked of people who have lost someone, and who gets to decide.