Director: Davoud Movaseghi

Cast: Shohreh Ghamar, Mohsen Alimohammadi, Mehdi Miami, Behzad Rahimkhani, Yasaman Khalkhali

Ashegh Pisheh (عاشق پیشه) is a 2023 Iranian drama film directed by Davoud Movaseghi, running 90 minutes. Set against the backdrop of Iran's volatile currency crisis, the film follows a young family whose carefully built happiness begins to fracture under the weight of economic pressure, turning an intimate domestic story into a portrait of modern Iranian anxiety.

What is Ashegh Pisheh about?

Sohrab and Gandam have built a quiet, contented life together, raising their young daughter Sepideh in a home full of warmth and ordinary routine. When the company where Sohrab works is pushed toward collapse by a sharp surge in the exchange rate, the financial strain begins seeping into the couple's relationship. What starts as a money problem gradually reveals deeper fault lines — questions of pride, dependence, and what a man or a woman is willing to sacrifice to keep a family intact. Movaseghi keeps the camera close to domestic spaces, letting tension accumulate through small moments rather than dramatic confrontations, until the weight of circumstance becomes impossible to ignore.

Cast & crew

The film is led by Shohreh Ghamar and Mohsen Alimohammadi as Gandam and Sohrab, with supporting work from Mehdi Miami, Behzad Rahimkhani, Yasaman Khalkhali, Ali Borji, Mehdi Hadadi, and Salar Esmi. Director Davoud Movaseghi guides a largely ensemble cast through the film's restrained, realist register, drawing understated performances that ground the story in everyday Iranian life.

Context & significance

Economic films have long occupied a significant place in Iranian cinema, from the neorealist social dramas of the 1990s through to more recent middle-class anxiety stories. Ashegh Pisheh fits squarely into this lineage, examining how currency volatility — a recurring reality for families inside Iran — quietly dismantles the everyday infrastructure of a relationship. For diaspora viewers, the film offers a precise and unglamourised window into the financial pressures that many left behind or witnessed in relatives still living in Iran. The genre asks not for spectacle but for recognition: the specific texture of a struggle that is ordinary precisely because it is so widespread. The film's restraint is itself a formal argument — that the most honest way to show this kind of hardship is to stay close to the people living it.

Where & how to watch

Ashegh Pisheh is available to stream on K-Time. The film plays in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and cancel anytime. No extra download required.