CINEOS Premiere

There Is No Evil

Four stories about the death penalty in Iran — the men who carry it out, the men who refuse, and the cost either way — quietly asking whether an ordinary person can stay innocent inside a machine built for killing.

It builds by accumulation: four moral reckonings in a row, each denying you a comfortable place to stand, until the pressure only mounts. The first story lets you settle into a man's dull morning before revealing what that morning is for, so recognition arrives before horror — and the film refuses the catharsis that would let you off the hook. The question it plants is not about the characters; it is about what you would do, and that one keeps growing after the lights come up.