

Two men, ten minutes, one bullet. Can words outrun death?
a man in black clothes brings another man in white clothes to a deserted area and the man in white has to convince the man in black to not murder him.
Direction
Zahedi wrings maximum dread from empty space
Cinematography
Desert isolation that feels like a fever dream
Writing
Every line is a chess move with mortality

Director
Parsa Zahedi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's Persian wordplay suggests 'convinced' and 'convicted' blur together — guilt and persuasion as the same act.
Shot in a single take with natural light fading; the sunset's urgency is real, not edited.