Everything for Sale (Hamechiz Baraye Forosh) follows a working-class Iranian family pushed to the edge when a hospital bill becomes a matter of life and death. Amir Hossein Saghafi's 2014 drama compresses its desperation into a lean 83 minutes.

What is Hamechiz Baraye Forosh about?

A young man's life changes in an instant when he is gravely injured at a football stadium. Surgery could save him, but the cost sits far beyond anything his family can raise. His older brother refuses to accept that arithmetic. Taking on dangerous work and even more dangerous risks, he sets out to gather the money by any means available, and each step pulls him deeper into a world where his own life becomes the collateral. The story stays close to the brother's point of view, measuring what a person will trade away when someone they love is running out of time.

About the cast

Saber Abar leads the cast, in a part that calls for exactly the kind of intense, interior playing the story is built around. He is joined by Saed Soheili and Mazdak Mirabedini, an ensemble kept deliberately small for a story this tightly wound. The three play off each other with the raw, unpolished energy the story demands.

Context & significance

Amir Hossein Saghafi's film is built on economic pressure and moral compromise, territory Iranian social drama has long made its own. Made in 2014, the picture arrived during a period when Iranian social dramas were earning international attention for treating everyday hardship with honesty rather than melodrama. Its stadium-injury premise also touches football culture, a fixture of Iranian daily life, and turns it into the spark for a story about family duty and sacrifice. At 83 minutes it is one of the more compact entries in the genre, favoring momentum over ornament.

Watching Hamechiz Baraye Forosh on K-Time

Everything for Sale streams on K-Time with its original Persian audio. Reading this page is free; to press play you only need to log in with a K-Time account. The service is built for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi-friendly interface and a catalog centered on Persian-language cinema and series.