Dar Jostejoye Farideh is an Iranian documentary film directed and produced by Azadeh Mousavi and Atai, following one woman's decades-long search for her birth family across the Iranian diaspora — a story of identity, loss, and the persistence of memory against the pressures of exile.
What is Dar Jostejoye Farideh Mostanad about?
The film centers on Farideh, an Iranian woman who was separated from her biological family as a young child and raised in circumstances far from her origins. Driven by an enduring need to understand who she is and where she comes from, she embarks on a painstaking investigation into her past. The documentary traces her steps across borders and decades, gathering fragments of memory, testimonies, and archival evidence. As each layer peels back, the film explores not only the personal but also the broader social and historical forces that shaped the fates of so many Iranian families during turbulent times. The emotional stakes are high and the outcome deeply human.
Cast & crew
The documentary is directed and produced by Azadeh Mousavi and Atai, two Iranian filmmakers who brought both investigative rigour and intimate sensitivity to the project. Their collaborative approach gives the film its dual perspective — one that is simultaneously journalistic in its research and deeply personal in its emotional register.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora audiences, a documentary about searching for lost family resonates on a frequency few other genres can reach. Waves of emigration — before and after the 1979 revolution, through the Iran-Iraq war, and into the 2000s — scattered families across continents. Many diaspora Iranians carry their own unresolved questions about relatives left behind, siblings given up, or roots deliberately obscured. Dar Jostejoye Farideh speaks directly to that wound. It positions the personal search as a mirror for collective displacement, giving Persian-speaking viewers abroad a language for grief and hope that mainstream cinema rarely provides.
Where & how to watch
Dar Jostejoye Farideh is available on K-Time with Persian audio. Watch on your browser, Android TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start and cancel anytime.