A telephone call from abroad is enough to unsettle a quiet Iranian household in Shahre Royayi, a 2025 drama directed by Mohammad Ehteshami. The story never leaves home ground: one family, one inherited property, and one man who has decided the others do not need to know.
What is Shahre Royayi about?
Morteza sits at the centre of an unremarkable domestic life — a household, a routine, nothing that looks likely to change. That ends when Ana makes contact from Russia to say she is coming to Iran. Her visit would be simple but for one detail: a house left as an inheritance carries a share that belongs to her, and Morteza has already sold it. From the moment her trip is confirmed he works to keep that transaction out of sight, from Ana and from relatives who might mention it without meaning to. What follows is a slow tightening rather than a chase — appointments managed, conversations steered, a family sensing that something is being handled instead of explained.
About the cast
The cast runs Kristina Sisco, Mehdi Aminikhah, Siroos Hemati, Asghar Heidari, Ali Borji, Fariba Torkashvand, Sharareh Doroshti and Masood Hosseini — an ensemble wide enough that the drama spreads across a household rather than resting on one performance. Mohammad Ehteshami is credited as director; our catalogue entry does not record who plays which character, so this page names the players without assigning roles.
Context & significance
Inheritance and disputed property are long-running material in Iranian family drama, where an undivided share can carry the weight a crime carries in other genres. Shahre Royayi works that seam in its 2025 form: a relative living abroad, a house that has already changed hands, and a family whose members do not all hold the same information. The title translates roughly as "dream city", and K-Time files the film under Drama and Family, a pairing that points to a story told at household scale.
Watching Shahre Royayi on K-Time
Shahre Royayi streams on K-Time. Reading this page needs no account; playback does — sign in with a free K-Time account and the title opens on the web player, on Android TV and on mobile. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking viewers living outside Iran, with a Farsi interface and a library weighted toward Iranian cinema and television.