Day Break

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Hamid Rahmanian

Year:
2005

Time:
85 minutes

Produced by:
Hamid Rahmanian & Vahid Nikkhah-Azzad

Written by:
Hamid Rahmanian & Mehran Kashani

Edited by:
Ebrahim Saeedi

Language:
Farsi with English subtitles

Winner! Annonay Int'l Film Festival

Winner! Fajr Film Festival

". . . works like a ticking time bomb."
- Variety

"A hard-hitting, thought provoking drama that gives a new dimension to a hot topic: the death sentence."
- International Herald Tribune

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In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break, based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison, revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, Mansour's execution is postponed again and again. Stuck inside the purgatroy of his own mind, he waits as time passes on without him, caught between life and death, retribution and forgiveness.