Cash for Gold (2013)

When a desperate Grace (Deborah Puette) walks into the Queen of Persia Gold Emporium, all she wants is to get in and out with some badly needed cash and a shred of her dignity intact. Things do not look promising when she comes up against Ehsan ('Homeland's Navid Negahban), a man with troubles of his own who reluctantly works the store's counter under his father's controlling gaze. A short film about hope told in English and Farsi, 'Cash for Gold' delicately examines the economic and ethnic tensions America grapples with today through the lens of two unlikely allies and the split-second decision that will turn their brief encounter into something neither of them will ever forget.