Director: Nazanin Karimii
Cast: Ali Ansarian, Alireza Mehran, Milad Moayeri, Saeid Dashti, Majid Rahmati
Dooshe Akhar is a 2021 Iranian short film directed by Nazanin Karimii, running approximately 25 minutes. A social drama with family dimensions, it presents two young men condemned to execution who receive a pardon from the victim's family — yet must still await a state ruling on their fate.
What is Dooshe Akhar Short about?
Two young men sit in the shadow of a death sentence. When the family of those they wronged grants them forgiveness — a rare and meaningful act within Iran's legal framework — the men breathe relief, believing the ordeal is over. Yet the state's own legal process remains pending, and the sentence is not yet lifted. Caught between the mercy of private pardon and the machinery of public law, the two make an unexpected decision about how to spend the suspended hours they have left. The film traces their quiet, charged wait, revealing character through small gestures rather than dramatic confrontation.
Cast & crew
The film is written and directed by Nazanin Karimii, whose work has circulated in international short-film festival circuits. The cast includes Ali Ansarian, Alireza Mehran, Milad Moayeri, Saeid Dashti, Majid Rahmati, and Saba Korginpour — a group of performers who convey tension and restraint in a compressed running time.
Context & significance
Short films occupy a distinct and important space in contemporary Iranian cinema — often the proving ground for directors exploring difficult social themes under tight formal constraints. Dooshe Akhar engages with questions of justice, mercy, and institutional process that resonate with diaspora audiences who retain close ties to Iran's social landscape. The premise — a legal pardon that does not automatically end a sentence — reflects documented realities of Iran's penal code, lending the story a grounded, factual weight. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, the film offers a 25-minute window into moral and legal tensions that Iranian families navigate.
Where & how to watch
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