Director: Kiana Montajebi
Cast: Amin Sahebzadeh, Niloofar Darbandi, Pania Montajebi, Razgol Motamedi, Ziba Hajian
Iran, Rooze Dovom is a 2023 Iranian short drama film directed by Kiana Montajebi, running approximately fifteen minutes. Quiet and precise, it follows a young girl navigating two unexpected days after being suspended from school, when no adult arrives to collect her.
What is Iran, Rooze Dovom about?
When a young girl finds herself suspended from school with nobody coming to take her home, she is left to face the hours alone. Over two days she moves through a world that feels indifferent to her small crisis — streets, interiors, and brief encounters that gradually reveal the pressures shaping her childhood. Montajebi keeps the camera close and the pacing unhurried, letting ordinary moments accumulate into something weightier. No single dramatic event drives the story forward; instead the film observes how absence — of adults, of guidance, of acknowledgment — can quietly alter the course of a child's life. The ending carries a sense of quiet consequence without offering easy resolution.
Cast & crew
Director Kiana Montajebi, who also has a familial connection to the production through cast member Pania Montajebi, works with a small ensemble. Amin Sahebzadeh and Niloofar Darbandi appear alongside Pania Montajebi, Razgol Motamedi, and Ziba Hajian, each contributing to the film's contained, observational world.
Context & significance
Short films have long served as a proving ground for Iranian cinema, and Iran, Rooze Dovom sits within a tradition of socially attentive domestic drama that has defined the country's festival output. For diaspora viewers, stories centred on childhood and institutional constraint carry particular resonance — they echo memories of school systems, family expectations, and the particular vulnerability of children caught between adult worlds. Montajebi's approach, quiet and grounded in realism, reflects the wider Iranian New Wave sensibility that prioritises observation over melodrama. At fifteen minutes, the film is compact but not slight; it uses its brevity deliberately, trusting the audience to fill in the silences.
Where & how to watch
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