Synopsis

In a Tehran youth detention centre, detainees have the right to short furloughs, as long as their family provides sufficient bail to guarantee their return.

The detention centre’s governor decides to help those without family to take advantage of this right. He asks them to swear on the Koran that they will return to the centre once their period of leave expires.

Emkan, detained for two years, refuses this arrangement. The following day, the governor on his own responsibility asks him to merely give his word to return.



Once out, Emkan contacts his friend, Kaveh, who works for a small theatre in an industrial town. Will Emkan keep his word?

Cast: Abolfazl Salimi, Kaveh Darabi, Shahab Tabatabai, Masoud Amin-Naji, Hossein Mirzaie, Mohammad Reza Bakhtiari

Producer: Abolfazl Jalili, Amir Seyyed Zadeh
Director of Photography: Abolfazl Jalili
Editing: Abolfazl Jalili
Sound Designer & Mix: Milad Jalili
Sound Recordist: Hossein Navabi
Set & Costume Designer: Abolfazl Jalili
Still Photographer: Maryam Ashrafi
Production Manager: Maryam Ashrafi
Shooting format: Digital/4K
Screening format: DCP
Sound: 5.1
Original version: Persian
Subtitled in: English
Runing time: 96 min
Fiction/Drama - Colour - 2024 - Iran



D I R E C T O R ’ S  S T A T E M E N T

I started my cinema career with an 8mm camera at the age of 16. Early on, I once fought on set with a violent bully and was condemned to five days in a youth detention centre. I could have avoided the incarceration if I had paid compensation, but, out of pride and curiosity, I decided to purge my sentence. During my detention I formed friendships with the other detainees that I would never forget. Most of my films have indeed been inspired by them. ‘Justice’ too had as its inspiration those five days spent in a youth detention centre.