Director: Alireza Farid
Cast: Pejman Bazeghi
2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad is a 2013 Iranian drama film directed by Alireza Farid, running 78 minutes. Anchored by a restrained performance from Pejman Bazeghi, the film follows a widow's quiet unraveling after an air crash strips her of everything she thought she knew about her marriage.
What is 2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad about?
Sholeh's world collapses when her husband Khosro dies in a plane disaster. Sorting through his possessions afterward, she discovers photographs of a woman she has never met. Unwilling to bury her questions alongside her grief, Sholeh travels south to the provincial university town where Khosro once taught, determined to learn what — or who — existed in the life he kept hidden from her. Each conversation opens a new door onto a man she recognises less and less, forcing her to reconstruct not only his final months but the entire arc of what she believed their shared life to be.
Cast & crew
Pejman Bazeghi carries the film in the central role of Sholeh, delivering a performance rooted in restraint and internal tension. Director Alireza Farid, working within a quiet observational register, draws out credible grief and mounting unease with minimal stylistic interference, letting location and silence do significant narrative work.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has a long tradition of intimate character studies that work grief and domestic silence as primary dramatic material — from the social realism of the 1990s art-house wave to the quieter genre exercises of the 2000s. 2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad sits in this lineage, using a single woman's investigation as a lens onto the unspoken distances that can grow inside a marriage. For diaspora viewers who grew up with Iranian domestic drama or who carry memories of provincial southern Iran — its particular light, its university towns, its social codes — the film will carry an added resonance. It is a compact, unsentimental work that trusts its audience to sit with ambiguity rather than demanding resolution.
Where & how to watch
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