Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Persian: یلدا، شبی برای بخشش; original title: Yalda, Persian: یلدا) is a 2019 Iranian drama film directed by Massoud Bakhshi.

The storyline of is based on an actual top-rated Iranian reality television show.

In this story, a young woman convicted of the murder of her much older husband faces the next-of-kin of the victim (his daughter), who has the power to grant her forgiveness and save the perpetrator from the death penalty.

The young woman must plead for her life, while viewers can vote by sms to help avoid the penalty by getting the sponsors to pay for the blood money.

[1][2] The actual TV show Mah-e Asal (meaning “Honey Moon”), aired daily from 2007 to 2018 during the Islamic religious festival of Ramadan, and often collaborated with Iran’s judicial system, which is based on Islamic law and includes the "eye for an eye" principle.