Excerpt from the short Diplomacy, which screened at SXSW 2010.
The US Secretary of State is about to meet the Iranian Foreign Minister in the first high-level diplomatic talks between the two countries in thirty years. Each has an interpreter: on the American side, Michael, a young man of Iranian descent; on the Iranian side, Azar, an equally bilingual young woman. But as the government representatives dig in their heels, it falls to the interpreters to keep negotiations on track. Will their unique approach bring about mutual understanding - or nuclear disaster?