Director: Alireza Motamedi

Cast: Alireza Motamedi, Baran Kosari, Hanie Tavassoli, Fereshteh Hosseini, Mani Haghighi

Chera Gerye Nemikoni is a 2022 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Alireza Motamedi, running 86 minutes. The film follows a grieving man who finds himself unable to shed a single tear after his younger brother's death, turning his quiet unraveling into the central emotional puzzle of the story.

What is Chera Gerye Nemikoni about?

After losing his younger brother, a man discovers that the normal release of grief — crying — has become impossible for him. He exists in a kind of emotional suspension, going through the motions of daily life while quietly fragmenting on the inside. His marriage is falling apart at the same time, and his job covering football for an online outlet offers neither distraction nor purpose. The film traces how this accumulation of losses — familial, romantic, professional — presses on a man who can no longer access his own sorrow, and what that numbness costs him and the people around him.

Cast & crew

Director Alireza Motamedi also leads the film in the central role, anchoring its quiet emotional register with an understated presence. He is joined by Baran Kosari and Hanie Tavassoli, both established figures in contemporary Iranian cinema, alongside Fereshteh Hosseini, Mani Haghighi, Ali Mosaffa, Linda Kiani, and Nahal Dashti — an ensemble that brings depth to what is essentially a chamber piece about grief.

Context & significance

Iranian cinema has a long tradition of examining grief, masculinity, and emotional repression through intimate, small-scale storytelling, and Chera Gerye Nemikoni sits squarely in that lineage. For diaspora audiences, the film touches on feelings that are deeply familiar: the way loss compounds with displacement, the difficulty of processing pain when daily survival demands you keep moving. The football-media backdrop grounds the story in a recognizable urban Tehran milieu, giving Persian-speaking viewers abroad a window into a contemporary Iranian emotional reality that resonates beyond borders.

Where & how to watch

Chera Gerye Nemikoni is available on K-Time with Persian-language audio in its original form. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.