Director: Nahid Azizi Sedigh
Cast: Iman Sedigh, Ali Bagheri
آه سرد (Ahe Sard) is a 2023 Iranian drama film directed by Nahid Azizi Sedigh, set against the spare and cold landscape of Iran's border regions. The film follows a son forced to confront a father he has spent two decades trying to forget, tracing a slow road trip that becomes a reckoning with memory, silence, and the weight of family violence.
What is Ahe Sard about?
Baha has built his adult life around a single, unresolved wound: his father Bahram murdered his mother twenty years ago, claiming she had been unfaithful. Bahram has now served his sentence and walked free — and Baha, unable to let that go unchallenged, sets out to find him. The journey takes them together through a cold, mountainous road where words come slowly and hostility simmers beneath the surface. Two men who share blood but not forgiveness sit side by side, each carrying the weight of what was lost. The film resists easy emotion, instead letting the silences between them do the heavy work of conveying grief, rage, and the complicated love that survives even the worst of betrayals. No resolution is handed to the viewer; what unfolds is raw and uncertain.
Cast & crew
Director Nahid Azizi Sedigh helms the film with a restrained, observational style suited to the material's emotional weight. Iman Sedigh brings a tightly wound intensity to Baha, conveying decades of suppressed anger with minimal dialogue. Ali Bagheri plays Bahram, the released prisoner and father, giving the role a wary, closed-off quality that makes every small gesture between the two men feel loaded.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has long explored the fractures of family life under pressure — social, political, and deeply personal — and Ahe Sard sits firmly within that tradition. For diaspora viewers, the film resonates on multiple levels: the geography of the border town, the silence that surrounds male grief in Iranian culture, and the way justice and forgiveness rarely arrive in the clean forms we want them. Films like this carry particular weight for Iranians abroad who grew up navigating family histories that were never fully spoken aloud. The cold road setting amplifies the emotional distance between father and son, making the landscape itself feel like a character in the story.
Where & how to watch
Ahe Sard is available to stream on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and cancel anytime.