Director: Abbas shabaviz
Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Arman, Taghi Zohuri
Emrooz o Farda is a 1966 Iranian Film Farsi directed by Abbas Shabaviz, following a group of orphaned children on a brief journey to the forests of northern Iran — a rare window into working-class Tehran life and the innocence of childhood set against the country's pre-revolutionary landscape.
What is Emrooz o Farda about?
A bus carries a group of children from an orphanage on a short excursion to the lush green regions of Iran's northern coast. Away from the city for the first time, the children discover a world of open fields and fresh air that stands in sharp contrast to their confined daily lives. Among them, bonds form, small dramas unfold, and the fleeting joy of freedom becomes bittersweet when the journey must end and ordinary life resumes. The film treats its young subjects with tenderness, letting the countryside itself become a character that mirrors the children's longing for something better.
Cast & crew
Director Abbas Shabaviz worked within the popular Film Farsi tradition, crafting stories aimed at broad Iranian audiences. Leading man Behrouz Vossoughi was already on his way to becoming one of Iranian cinema's most beloved stars of the 1960s and 1970s. He is joined by Arman and Taghi Zohuri, two familiar faces from the same era of popular Persian-language melodrama and social cinema.
Context & significance
Film Farsi was the commercial vernacular cinema of Iran from the 1950s through 1979 — melodramas, comedies, and social stories made for working-class audiences and rooted in everyday Persian life. Emrooz o Farda (meaning Today and Tomorrow) sits within that tradition's more socially conscious strand: films that used simple outings or road journeys to surface questions about class, orphanhood, and the gap between city and countryside. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching these classics or who heard about them from parents and grandparents, the film carries the texture of a vanished Iran — unpaved roads, simple pleasures, a Tehran that no longer exists. It is a document as much as a drama.
Where & how to watch
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