The lease has run out, the rent has gone up, and Ata and Masoumeh have nowhere near the money — but they are not ready to leave the house they love. Ghandone Jahiziye, a 2015 comedy-drama from director Ali Mollagholi Poor, builds its story around a young couple's stubborn fight to stay put.
What is Ghandone Jahiziye about?
Ata and Masoumeh are a young married couple renting a modest home. When their contract ends, the landlord asks for more than they can possibly pay, and every sensible option points toward packing up. The house, though, has become part of their marriage — it is where their life together took shape — so instead of surrendering it they start improvising, scheming and bargaining their way through an unforgiving rental market. What follows mixes household comedy with a very real portrait of financial strain: small humiliations, inventive workarounds, relatives with opinions, and a partnership tested by money worries neither of them created. Across 93 minutes the movie keeps returning to a plain question many viewers will recognise — how much of yourself do you give up to keep a roof you can no longer afford?
About the cast
Saber Abar and Negar Javaherian head the film's credited cast, and Akbar Abdi completes the trio of billed names — a line-up well suited to a story that keeps one foot in comedy and the other in family drama, letting the humour and the strain share the same rooms. Ali Mollagholi Poor directs.
Context & significance
Housing costs and rent pressure were among the most talked-about everyday anxieties in mid-2010s Iran, and Iranian cinema of the period repeatedly turned them into family stories rather than lectures. Ghandone Jahiziye belongs to that strand: its title refers to the traditional sugar bowl from a bride's dowry set (jahizieh), the kind of household object that carries a couple's hopes for their shared life. Framing an economic squeeze through a young marriage let the filmmakers keep the tone warm and comic while still saying something honest about how hard starting out had become. The film is a 2015 release and met a mixed reception from audiences.
Watching Ghandone Jahiziye on K-Time
Ghandone Jahiziye streams on K-Time in its original Persian. The page you are reading is open to everyone; playing the film requires signing in with a K-Time account. K-Time serves Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora with a Farsi interface on smart TVs, mobile and the web.