Director: Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh
Cast: Parviz Parastui, Tina Pakravan, Mahdi Pakdel, Setareh Eskandari
Khaneie Kaghazi is a 2017 Iranian drama film directed by Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh, starring Parviz Parastui as a veteran journalist whose career was silenced by years of imprisonment. Now living quietly with his daughter — herself a reporter — he is pulled back into a world he tried to leave behind.
What is Khaneie Kaghazi about?
A seasoned journalist spent years behind bars after an arrest upended his life. Released but professionally sidelined, he shares a modest home with his grown daughter, who has followed him into the same dangerous profession. When a prominent writer dies unexpectedly, the news reignites connections to an old love story the journalist had buried long ago. As father and daughter begin piecing together what really happened, they confront not only the circumstances of the death but also the weight of memory, loyalty, and the compromises people make to survive inside a system that punishes honesty. The investigation forces both of them to reckon with what it means to tell the truth — and what it costs.
Cast & crew
Parviz Parastui, one of Iranian cinema's most revered character actors, anchors the film with a restrained, weathered performance. Tina Pakravan plays his daughter with quiet resolve. Mahdi Pakdel and Setareh Eskandari round out the ensemble, bringing texture to the film's portrait of journalism, love, and institutional pressure. Director Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh draws measured, naturalistic performances from the entire cast.
Context & significance
Iranian drama films that center on journalism and press freedom carry a particular resonance for diaspora audiences who left Iran partly because of the same constraints the film depicts. Khaneie Kaghazi sits within a tradition of Iranian social realism that uses intimate family stories to speak to larger structural truths — the gap between the journalist's private loyalty and public silence, the daughter inheriting both vocation and vulnerability. For viewers abroad, the film offers a window into a generation that lived through successive waves of censorship and still chose to keep working, a story at once specific to Iran and universally recognizable.
Where & how to watch
Khaneie Kaghazi is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start or cancel anytime.