Cast: Sergio Gutierrez, Estibalitz Ruiz, Camila Rojas
Nan Va Sher (Bread and Poetry) is a 1992 Iranian social comedy film written and directed by Kiomars Poorahmad, produced by Vahid Nikkhah Azad and Fereshteh Tayerpour. It blends everyday Iranian life with gentle humour, offering a warm and humanist portrait of ordinary people navigating the contradictions of modern society.
What is Nan Va Sher about?
Set in contemporary Iran, the film follows a cast of working-class characters whose lives intersect around the daily rhythms of neighbourhood existence — bread queues, household pressures, and the small dignities people cling to. Poorahmad observes his characters with affection rather than judgment, finding comedy in misunderstandings and tenderness in moments of connection. The story unfolds through a series of vignettes that capture the texture of urban Iranian life in the early 1990s, building toward a quietly moving conclusion that affirms the resilience of ordinary people.
Cast & crew
The film features Sergio Gutierrez, Estibalitz Ruiz, and Camila Rojas in key roles. Director Kiomars Poorahmad, one of Iran's distinctive voices in social cinema, both wrote and directed the picture, bringing his characteristic eye for authentic detail and understated performance to a story rooted in the realities of everyday life.
Context & significance
Iranian social comedies of the early 1990s occupy a cherished place in the diaspora's cultural memory. Films of this era captured a domestic Iran — its humour, warmth, and quiet frustrations — that many emigrants carry as a touchstone of home. Nan Va Sher belongs to a tradition of humanist Iranian cinema that finds poetry in ordinary existence rather than grand drama. For viewers raised on Persian storytelling, the film speaks a familiar emotional language: the shared loaf, the overheard conversation, the neighbourhood bond. Watching it abroad, that language feels both nostalgic and surprisingly current.
Where & how to watch
Nan Va Sher is available now on K-Time with full Persian dubbing, so you can enjoy it in your own language without reading subtitles. Watch on your browser, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.