Director: Mohammad Sadegh Baktashian
Cast: Mohsen Ghasabian, Ali Gholami, Atash Taghipour, Sakho Aram, Rouzbeh Akhtari
Hamegiri is a 2023 Iranian drama series directed by Mohammad Sadegh Baktashian, set during the most intense waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series follows healthcare workers and volunteer relief brigades as they push through exhaustion, loss, and impossible odds to keep their communities alive.
What is Hamegiri about?
When the fifth wave of COVID-19 strikes, a regional hospital and the volunteer forces attached to it are stretched beyond their limits. Doctors, nurses, and Jihadi relief workers move from ward to ward in protective gear, making decisions that will define the rest of their lives. At home, their families wait with mounting anxiety. The series weaves together the professional and personal crises of its ensemble cast — showing how ordinary people hold a fractured society together when institutions buckle. Each episode builds on small acts of courage, quiet sacrifice, and the grief that accumulates when too many patients arrive and not enough beds remain. The pandemic is the backdrop, but the real subject is human endurance under sustained pressure.
Cast & crew
Mohammad Sadegh Baktashian directs an ensemble that includes Mohsen Ghasabian and Ali Gholami as central medical figures, with Atash Taghipour and Sakho Aram rounding out the hospital staff. Rouzbeh Akhtari, Niloofar Koukhani, Mehdi Sabaiy, and Soleimani bring the volunteer and family dimensions to life across the series.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora viewers who lived through the pandemic from abroad, Hamegiri offers something rare: a ground-level account of what that period looked like inside Iran's strained public health system. Iranian television has a long tradition of socially-conscious drama that documents national crises as they happen, and this series fits that lineage. It gives form to a chapter that many diaspora families experienced only through anxious phone calls home — the sleepless nights of relatives who worked in hospitals, the volunteer convoys, the silence between waves. Watching it closes a distance that geography imposed, and honors the people who remained.
Where & how to watch
Hamegiri is available on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Stream it on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.