Nominated for Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay 
Vahid (Vahid Mobassari) is having a normal day trying to get stuff ready for his sister's wedding when a customer comes into his repair shop. Vahid recognizes the sound of the man's prosthetic leg squeaking as belonging to the interrogator Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), who tortured him in prison. But Vahid was always blindfolded, so he can't be sure. Impulsively, he kidnaps the customer and seeks out Shiva (Mariam Afshari), a former journalist who was also imprisoned and tortured by Eghbal, to see if she can positively identify him. Shiva is now doing wedding photography for Goli (Hadis Pakbaten), another torture victim, and when Goli hears they might have Eghbal, she demands to be included in the decisions. Shiva only knows one person who could make a positive ID, Hamid (Mohammed Ali Elyasmehr), but he is volatile and bitter, and Vahid doesn't necessarily trust that Hamid would tell the truth.
Okay, so all of that is an accurate synopsis of the movie that does not in any way tell you how funny it is. Yes, very serious, kidnapping, moral quandary, wrestling demons, but also (!) goofy bureaucratic nonsense, cartoonish levels of graft, and five good people who are trying to do the right thing for justice that had been denied to them.
Don't sleep on this one because it looks too heavy. I promise you, it is handled so well. It's streaming on Hulu.
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