Director: Karim lakzadeh
Cast: Abbas Ghazali, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Mohammad Reza Davood Nejad, Soroush Sehat
Gheychi (Scissors) is a 2016 Iranian crime-drama film directed by Karim Lakzadeh, running 75 minutes. The story follows a young man facing a severe court sentence as he makes a desperate bid for freedom the night before his fate is sealed.
What is Gheychi about?
Rama is a 28-year-old man who blinded a woman during a violent altercation and now stands on the eve of a court ruling that could cost him his own sight under the law of equal retribution. His father secures his temporary release for one final night with family, but Rama sees his chance and takes it. Posing as a camera operator alongside a film crew heading south, he attempts to slip across Iran's borders and escape the country entirely. The plan quickly unravels — he withdraws cash from a bank and the police pick up his trail. Forced to deal with smugglers, he ends up stranded on a remote island waiting for a boat that may never come. There, an unexpected encounter with a pregnant woman forces him to reckon with more than just his own survival.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Karim Lakzadeh and features Abbas Ghazali and Mohammad Reza Ghaffari in leading roles, alongside Mohammad Reza Davood Nejad and Soroush Sehat. The cast brings a grounded intensity to this compressed, pressure-cooker story set against the landscapes of southern Iran.
Context & significance
Gheychi sits within a strand of Iranian social-realist cinema that examines how ordinary people collide with the country's justice system and then spiral into increasingly desperate choices. For diaspora viewers, the film's geography — the journey south toward the border, the isolated island, the sense of being trapped between law and fate — carries particular resonance. It belongs alongside other Iranian films that treat flight and escape not as adventure but as moral tragedy. The picture's short runtime keeps the tension tightly wound, and the setting away from Tehran gives it a rawness that feels distinct from urban Iranian drama. It is a compact, unsparing look at guilt, consequence, and the slim margin between a life redeemed and one lost.
Where & how to watch
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