Director: Hossein Tabrizi
Cast: Pejman Bazeghi, Leila Otadi, Shaghayegh Farahani
Afsongar is a 2015 Iranian drama-romance film directed by Hossein Tabrizi, starring Pejman Bazeghi, Leila Otadi, and Shaghayegh Farahani. The film follows a prosperous attorney whose private obsessions begin to erode the professional and personal foundations he has spent years building.
What is Afsongar about?
Shayan is a high-powered lawyer whose career appears immaculate from the outside. Behind that polished surface, however, he becomes consumed by a romantic infatuation that pulls him toward choices he knows are professionally indefensible. His wife Diba has stood beside him through every milestone of his rise — her loyalty and sacrifices woven into the fabric of everything he has achieved. When Shayan finds himself handling a legal matter that mirrors his own private situation, the boundaries between personal desire and professional duty collapse. The film traces how the consequences of that collapse radiate outward, touching everyone connected to him.
Cast & crew
Pejman Bazeghi, one of Iranian cinema's reliably grounded performers, anchors the film as Shayan, a man whose composure masks deepening moral compromise. Leila Otadi brings quiet dignity to Diba, holding the emotional center of the story. Shaghayegh Farahani completes the central triangle, and director Hossein Tabrizi draws measured performances from all three leads.
Context & significance
Iranian drama-romance films of the 2010s frequently examined the tension between outward respectability and private transgression — particularly within professional classes navigating modern urban life in Tehran. Afsongar fits squarely within that tradition, offering diaspora viewers a portrait of pressures and moral crossroads that resonate beyond any single cultural setting. For Iranians abroad who grew up watching this kind of socially observed domestic cinema, the film carries the texture of a world they recognize: the weight of expectation, the cost of ambition, and what loyalty means when tested from within.
Where & how to watch
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