Director: Seyed Milad Bani Taba
Cast: Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Nasim Adabi, Sahra Asadollahi, Sahand Jahedi, Morteza Amini Tabar
Marjan is a 2025 Iranian drama film directed by Seyed Milad Bani Taba, running 80 minutes, that centers on a young woman navigating the pressures of a traditional family arrangement and the consequences of her choice to resist it. The film is inspired by real events and examines domestic social dynamics through an intimate, character-driven lens.
What is Marjan about?
A young woman named Marjan grows up within a conservative family that expects her to marry her cousin — a match arranged by her elders without regard for her own feelings, as her heart belongs to someone else entirely. Trapped between duty and personal longing, Marjan makes the fateful decision to leave home. That single act of departure sets off a chain of consequences that ripples through her family and the people around her. The film unfolds with restraint, focusing on the emotional weight carried by each character rather than melodramatic incident, as the people closest to Marjan must reckon with the fallout of her choice.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Seyed Milad Bani Taba and features a cast that includes Farid Sajjadi Hosseini and Nasim Adabi in leading roles, alongside Sahra Asadollahi, Sahand Jahedi, Morteza Amini Tabar, Shiva Taheri, Mehri Sadat Aleagha, and Anahid Adabi. The ensemble brings a grounded naturalism to the film's family-centered drama.
Context & significance
Iranian family dramas have long occupied a central place in the country's cinema, with filmmakers using the domestic space to examine broader social questions — the weight of tradition, the expectations placed on women, and the gap between individual desire and collective obligation. Marjan continues this lineage with a story drawn from real events, a detail that lends the narrative a particular gravity for viewers who recognize these dynamics from their own communities or family histories. For diaspora audiences, the film offers a window into the social pressures many left behind — or that relatives still navigate — told without sentimentality and with a focus on human consequence rather than judgment.
Where & how to watch
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