A poet steps out of an Iranian prison after three decades inside and finds a world that kept moving without him. Rhino Season, an Iranian drama carrying a catalogue year of 2012, begins at that threshold and stays with the search that follows.
What is Rhino Season about?
Sahel is a Kurdish-Iranian poet who was arrested after the revolution over what he had written, and handed a sentence of thirty years. Before the arrest he had married Mina, the daughter of a colonel, in the period preceding the political upheaval that reordered both of their lives. The years pass. Word reaches Mina that her husband did not survive custody, and she spends more than two decades living with that belief. When Sahel is finally released, he leaves with a single purpose: to learn where Mina went and whether she is still alive. The story follows that pursuit through exile and long silence, holding its attention on two people separated for nearly a whole adult life.
About the cast
The K-Time catalogue record for this release carries neither a director credit nor a cast list, so no performer is named on this page. The record does establish the shape of the work: a feature-length drama built around a small number of central figures, with the released poet Sahel and his wife Mina at its centre.
Context & significance
K-Time files the title under drama, historical and thriller, matching a story that runs across both sides of a national political rupture and resolves into a search conducted under pressure. The protagonist is identified as Kurdish-Iranian, which places the work among Iranian productions starting from a minority-language background. The historical setting functions as circumstance rather than argument: imprisonment, a death wrongly reported, and displacement are the conditions the characters live inside, and the narrative stays with the private consequences of those conditions. The runtime is eighty-eight minutes, short enough that a very long stretch of time arrives in compressed form. Country of production is listed as Iran.
Watching Rhino Season on Ktime
Rhino Season streams on K-Time for viewers signed in to an account; this page is open to read without one. The catalogue lists a Persian dubbed audio track; Persian subtitles are not currently flagged. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking audiences outside Iran, with a Farsi interface and Farsi browsing, and the title opens on the web, Android TV and phone clients under one account.