Director: Farzad Motamen

Cast: Fariborz Arabnia, Siamak Safari, Jale Saameti, Atila Pesiani

Akharin Bar Kei Sahar ra Didi is a 2016 Iranian drama-mystery film directed by Farzad Motamen, running 91 minutes. Set against the backdrop of a missing child investigation, it probes the fault lines of memory, guilt, and human vulnerability in contemporary Iran.

What is Akharin Bar Kei Sahar ra Didi about?

A mother walks into a police station in the early morning hours, desperate and trembling. Her young daughter Sahar did not come home the night before, and no one seems to know where she went. As the investigation unfolds, officers begin piecing together the girl's last known movements — each witness account revealing a different fragment of the truth. What begins as a straightforward missing-person case gradually opens into something far more complicated, drawing in neighbours, strangers, and family members whose stories refuse to align. The film holds its tension through quiet observation rather than melodrama, trusting the audience to sit with unresolved questions.

Cast & crew

Director Farzad Motamen brings measured, controlled pacing to the material. Fariborz Arabnia anchors the film as a key figure navigating the investigation, while Siamak Safari and Jale Saameti add layered supporting work. Veteran actor Atila Pesiani rounds out the ensemble, lending weight and credibility to the film's human drama.

Context & significance

Iranian crime-drama has a distinct tradition of social realism — films that use genre mechanics to examine everyday anxieties around safety, institutions, and community trust. Akharin Bar Kei Sahar ra Didi sits in this lineage, using the disappearance of a child to ask harder questions about what neighbours and families actually know about one another. For Iranian diaspora viewers, the film's texture — its apartment buildings, its bureaucratic police station, its ordinary Tehran streets — carries a specific emotional resonance, the recognition of a world left behind. Crime and mystery genres rarely felt so quietly personal in Persian cinema.

Where & how to watch

Akharin Bar Kei Sahar ra Didi is available on K-Time in original Persian audio. No VPN is needed and there is no geo-blocking — watch on the web, your TV, or your phone, with the flexibility to cancel anytime.