Director: Seyyed Alireza Rasti
Cast: Mahmoud Maghami, Abbas Malhoujifar, Mohsen Mahmoudipour, Soheila Ghorbani, Afsaneh Hajipour
Ghorse Mah is a 2024 Iranian drama-mystery film directed by Seyyed Alireza Rasti, following a tense night of suspicion and accusation inside a restaurant, now streaming in Persian on K-Time.
What is Ghorse Mah about?
A birthday celebration at a Tehran restaurant takes a sharp turn when a guest's bag goes missing. What begins as a minor inconvenience quickly unravels into a web of mutual suspicion — the guest, the restaurant owner, and the staff each point fingers at one another. As accusations mount and trust erodes, the evening transforms from a festive gathering into an uncomfortable reckoning. The film holds its tension within a single setting, letting the confined space amplify every glance, every denial, and every uneasy silence.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Seyyed Alireza Rasti and features a compact ensemble: Mahmoud Maghami and Abbas Malhoujifar anchor the conflict at the center of the story, supported by Mohsen Mahmoudipour, Soheila Ghorbani, Afsaneh Hajipour, and Pouria Ghalandari. Together they carry a chamber drama that relies almost entirely on performance to sustain its mystery.
Context & significance
Chamber dramas set in a single location have a long tradition in Iranian cinema — the restaurant becomes both stage and pressure cooker, a familiar social space turned arena for class anxiety and distrust. Ghorse Mah (قرص ماه, literally "full moon") arrives in 2024 as part of a quiet wave of low-budget Iranian films exploring everyday moral ambiguity without resorting to melodrama. For diaspora viewers, the setting — a restaurant, a celebration, the sudden collapse of civility among strangers — will feel intimately recognizable. The film asks how quickly community can fracture when everyone has something to hide.
Where & how to watch
Ghorse Mah is available to watch on K-Time with original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.