Director: Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi
Cast: Iman Sayad Borhani, Payar Allahyari, Masoume Beygi, Behzad Dorani, Nima Nouri Zadeh
Gheseye Shemroon is a 2023 Iranian drama film directed by Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi, a France-Germany-Iran-Italy co-production that follows two young brothers navigating Tehran's underground economy after family tragedy strips away every safety net they once had.
What is Gheseye Shemroon about?
Iman has spent years blaming his father for the wreckage of their household. When their mother dies suddenly, that resentment hardens into resolve: he must get himself and his younger brother Payar out of the family home at any cost. Leaning on connections he has quietly cultivated among Tehran's privileged social circles, Iman begins moving goods through a world where money flows fast and questions go unasked. For a while, the plan holds. Then a single night delivery goes wrong in ways neither brother could have predicted, and the consequences begin to cascade outward, reshaping everything the two young men thought they knew about loyalty, escape, and each other.
Cast & crew
Director Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi, who also appears in the film as Paul-Ilia Aleebrahim Dehkordi, works here with a largely young cast. Iman Sayad Borhani and Payar Allahyari carry the weight of the brother dynamic at the center of the story. Veteran actor Behzad Dorani brings authority to the fraught father figure, while Masoume Beygi, Nima Nouri Zadeh, Mehdi Ansari, and Aysan Ghanbari round out the ensemble.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora audiences, Gheseye Shemroon lands with particular force because it refuses the familiar glossiness of commercial Tehran cinema. The title itself — Shemroon being the affluent northern Tehran neighbourhood — signals a story about wealth and access as seen from the outside, by those scrambling at its edges. The film sits within a broader contemporary wave of Iranian social realism that examines class mobility, family dysfunction, and the particular desperation of young men with few legitimate exits. Shot across four countries' production infrastructure, it carries the hybrid energy of a film that knows what it feels like to exist between worlds — a resonance that travels well with audiences who have themselves crossed borders.
Where & how to watch
Gheseye Shemroon is available to stream on K-Time in original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.