Director: Hossein Teyebzadeh
Cast: Sam Karami, Maryam Khodarahmi, Sima Khazrabadi, Mohsen Sabetian, Ahmad Maghami
Cheshmhaayat is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed by Hossein Teyebzadeh, running 88 minutes and exploring the weight of commitment, desire, and family when a marriage stands at the edge of collapse. It is a quiet, emotionally precise portrait of two people confronting choices that cannot be undone.
What is Cheshmhaayat about?
Mojdeh and Amir are on the verge of separating when an unexpected pregnancy reshapes everything they thought they had decided. Amir has recently grown close to a young woman named Darya, and now finds himself pulled between the life he built and the pull of something new. The film follows both characters as they sit with their uncertainty — Mojdeh navigating the news alone at first, Amir unable to name what he truly wants. Teyebzadeh keeps the camera close, letting small domestic moments carry the emotional weight: a dinner left on the table, a phone call cut short. No easy resolution is promised, and the film earns its tension by refusing to assign blame or rush toward answers.
Cast & crew
Director Hossein Teyebzadeh brings a restrained, observational style to this intimate story. Sam Karami leads as Amir, matched by Maryam Khodarahmi as Mojdeh in a performance that holds grief and resilience in the same breath. The supporting ensemble — including Sima Khazrabadi, Mohsen Sabetian, Ahmad Maghami, Fakhroddin Sedighsharif, Nazanin Aryan, and Iman Nasr — fills the world around the couple with recognizable human texture.
Context & significance
Iranian domestic dramas occupy a distinct space in Persian cinema: they rarely dramatize large external events, instead trusting that the pressure inside a household is enough. Cheshmhaayat belongs to that tradition — a film about a marriage in crisis that speaks directly to diaspora audiences who carry the tensions of family obligation and personal freedom across two cultures. For Iranians abroad, the pull Amir feels between duty and longing, and Mojdeh's quiet endurance, land with a particular sharpness. The film does not moralize; it observes. That restraint is itself a form of respect for the audience's lived experience, and it is what separates this kind of Iranian family drama from more sensationalized treatments of the same theme.
Where & how to watch
Cheshmhaayat is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start or cancel anytime.