Director: Mohammadali Soleimantash
Cast: اردلان شجاعکاوه، محمد حبیباللهی، ماریان کلهر، سیده روژینا میرسید، محسن عباسپور، آبتین مفید، سبحان آسترکی، حامد موحد، متین صفرپور، ابوالفضل محمدی، محمدادریس جاویدان، مروه جاویدان، فاطمه یزدانی، مبینا خدامرادی، حمید بخشی، نوید ملکسعیدی، اکرم خسروی، آید
Emarati dar Meh is a 2021 Iranian drama-crime-mystery film directed by Mohammadali Soleimantash, running 70 minutes. Set inside the walls of a psychiatric sanatorium, it follows a young physician whose professional visit quickly turns into something far more unsettling than a routine research assignment.
What is Emarati dar Meh about?
A young doctor accepts an invitation from the director of a psychiatric institution to study a specific category of patients exhibiting unusual behavior. Almost immediately after arriving, he begins noticing a series of strange, unexplained incidents involving both the patients and the staff. The deeper he looks, the clearer it becomes that medicine was never the real reason he was summoned. Surrounded by shifting alliances and mounting dread, he realizes his own safety may be at stake, and that the sanatorium's most dangerous mysteries are only beginning to surface.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Mohammadali Soleimantash and features a large ensemble that includes Ardalan Shoja-Kaveh and Mohammad Habibollahi in key roles, alongside Marian Kolahkar, Seyyedeh Rozina Mirseyyed, Mohsen Abbaspour, Abtin Mofid, Sobhan Astarak, Hamed Movahhed, and Matin Safarpour, among others.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has a long tradition of using enclosed, institutional spaces — hospitals, prisons, apartment buildings — as pressure chambers for social and psychological tension. Emarati dar Meh draws on that lineage, wrapping a crime-mystery premise inside a psychiatric setting that allows the filmmakers to blur the line between the rational and the irrational. For diaspora viewers, the film offers familiar Persian dramatic rhythms paired with a genre framework that fans of international psychological thrillers will recognize immediately. The compact 70-minute runtime keeps the atmosphere taut, making it an accessible entry point into contemporary Iranian genre filmmaking for audiences discovering it outside Iran for the first time.
Where & how to watch
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