Director: Saman Khalilian
Cast: Parva Aghajani, Ebtesam Baghlani, Javad Pouladi, Atiye Javid, Hessam Khalilnejad
End Az Motalebe is a 2018 Iranian drama film directed by Saman Khalilian, running 84 minutes and featuring a strong ensemble of Iranian stage and screen performers. The film draws its energy from a confined social scenario — a group of people waiting together, each carrying private hopes tied to a single expected announcement.
What is End Az Motalebe about?
A varied group of strangers finds itself gathered in a queue, all of them waiting on the same piece of news. Each person has personal stakes riding on the outcome: livelihoods, futures, and relationships hang in the balance. As the wait stretches on, the shared anxiety gives way to subtle rivalries. Without resorting to open conflict, each individual quietly maneuvers to secure an advantage — to be closer to the front, to hear first, to act first. The film observes this human choreography with patience, letting small gestures and glances carry the weight of larger ambitions. What begins as a collective experience gradually reveals the private calculations beneath every polite surface.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Saman Khalilian and features an ensemble cast including Parva Aghajani, Ebtesam Baghlani, Javad Pouladi, Atiye Javid, Hessam Khalilnejad, Mohammad Zavar Beirya, Morteza Shahkaram, and Elaheh Shahparast. The production brings together performers with roots in Iranian theatre, lending the film a strong stage-influenced naturalism and ensemble discipline.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has a long tradition of exploring collective human behavior through intimate, confined settings — a theatrical mode that traces back to filmmakers who favored psychological depth over spectacle. End Az Motalebe fits squarely within this lineage, using the simple premise of a waiting line to probe ambition, social decorum, and the quiet tensions that surface when people share a common goal. For diaspora viewers, this kind of drama carries particular resonance: the experience of waiting — for documents, for decisions, for news that will reshape a life — is familiar across generations of Iranian immigrants and refugees. The film's ensemble structure, borrowed from stage tradition, rewards patient viewing and offers a portrait of ordinary people navigating an ordinary but charged situation.
Where & how to watch
End Az Motalebe is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. Watch it on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking. Cancel your membership anytime.