Director: Nima Eghlima
Cast: Milad Keymaram, Sahar Dolatshahi, Hadi Kazemi, Behdokht Valian
Amir is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Nima Eghlima, following two men whose personal crises collide in the corridors of contemporary Tehran. With a runtime of 100 minutes, it offers a quiet but searching portrait of responsibility, estrangement, and the limits of goodwill.
What is Amir about?
Ali travels to Tehran looking for his former wife and the young son he has been separated from. His search brings him into contact with Amir, a local man navigating his own tangled domestic troubles. Rather than focusing solely on his personal mission, Amir finds himself drawn into the lives of those around him, offering help in the understated, imperfect ways available to him. The film builds its tension not through dramatic confrontation but through accumulating detail — small decisions, withheld words, and the weight of unresolved family bonds that neither man can fully escape.
Cast & crew
Milad Keymaram and Sahar Dolatshahi lead the cast, both established presences in contemporary Iranian cinema known for grounded, restrained performances. Hadi Kazemi and Behdokht Valian round out the ensemble. Director Nima Eghlima works with a tight group of performers, allowing the film's emotional undercurrents to surface through naturalistic interaction rather than heightened dramatic delivery.
Context & significance
Iranian social drama of the past decade has increasingly turned its attention to fractured family structures and the emotional costs of urban migration — and Amir sits squarely within that tradition. For diaspora viewers, films like this carry a particular resonance: the Tehran of Eghlima's lens is recognisable not as spectacle but as a lived environment, full of the negotiations and silences that shape daily family life. The story of a father searching for his child across a city touches on anxieties about separation and belonging that many Iranian families abroad have felt acutely, making this more than a domestic drama set in Iran.
Where & how to watch
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