Director: Sajad Gharegozlu
Cast: Hamidreza Pegah, Afsaneh Chehreh Azad, Siavash Cheraghi Pour
Dar Sayeh is a 2026 Iranian short film directed by Sajad Gharegozlu, running fourteen minutes and featuring Hamidreza Pegah, Afsaneh Chehreh Azad, and Siavash Cheraghi Pour. The film centers on a deeply troubling discovery inside a private care facility and the investigation that follows.
What is Dar Sayeh about?
A young woman lies unconscious in a private nursing home, wholly dependent on the staff around her. When a routine examination reveals she is two months pregnant, the institution is forced into a reckoning it cannot postpone. The pregnancy becomes evidence of something that should never have happened within those walls. The film follows the effort to piece together what occurred and to identify who is responsible — moving carefully through the silence and the gaps that surround the woman's condition. It handles its subject without dramatizing violence, keeping the camera trained instead on the human consequences of a concealed wrong.
Cast & crew
Sajad Gharegozlu directs. The three lead performers are Hamidreza Pegah, Afsaneh Chehreh Azad, and Siavash Cheraghi Pour — all working within Iranian cinema. No additional biographical detail about these individuals is confirmed for this title.
Context & significance
Short films have long served as a proving ground for Iranian filmmakers working under significant production constraints. A fourteen-minute runtime does not limit ambition — Iranian short cinema regularly reaches international attention precisely because it concentrates its material so tightly. For diaspora viewers, films like Dar Sayeh offer a window into contemporary social concerns being explored inside Iran: questions of institutional accountability, vulnerability, and silence. Watching this type of film outside Iran, in original Persian audio, carries its own weight for audiences who grew up with the language and the culture.
Where & how to watch
Dar Sayeh is available to stream on K-Time in its original Persian audio. You can watch on the web, on your Android TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geographic restrictions. Subscription can be cancelled at any time.