Ballad of a White Cow

[Available Feb. 10 via streaming on MUBI.] After a widowed, Iranian milk processing factory worker (Maryam Moghaddon) living in Tehran with her movie-loving, deaf, 7-year-old daughter (Avin Poor Raoufi) tries to get justice from the judicial courts and government for wrongfully executing her husband for a murder he did not commit in Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam's heartbreaking, award-winning, poignant, bleak, well-acted, multilayered, down-to-earth, ire-inducing, 115-minute, 2020 film with a surprise ending, a guilt-ridden stranger (Alireza Sani Far) who is hiding a secret shows up with money he claims he owes her husband while her greedy, meddling, hateful brother-in-law (Pouria Rahimi Sam) and father-in-law continue to make life more difficult for her.
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