Director: Vahid Jalilvand
Cast: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani
No Date No Signature is a 2017 Iranian drama-thriller directed by Vahid Jalilvand, written by Ali Zarnegar and Jalilvand, and produced by Ehsan Alikhani and Ali Jalilvand. The film follows a forensic doctor whose professional and moral life are placed under extraordinary pressure by a single ambiguous incident on the road.
What is No Date No Signature about?
Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic physician, is driving at night when his car is involved in a minor collision with a motorcycle carrying a working-class family. The father insists everyone is unhurt, and the family rides on. Days later, Dr. Nariman encounters a child at the morgue and suspects the boy may be the same child from that night's accident. The question of whether the crash caused the child's death — or whether another explanation exists — becomes the moral and procedural engine of the story. The film builds its tension through bureaucratic procedure, medical ethics, and the weight of guilt, without ever reducing the characters to simple heroes or villains.
Cast & crew
Navid Mohammadzadeh leads the cast as Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a role that draws on his ability to convey quiet internal conflict. Amir Aghaee plays the working-class father at the center of the moral question, and Hediyeh Tehrani appears in a supporting role. Director Vahid Jalilvand co-wrote the screenplay alongside Ali Zarnegar, marking his continued focus on ethical dilemmas within contemporary Iranian society.
Context & significance
No Date No Signature belongs to a strand of Iranian social-realist cinema that places medical and legal institutions at the center of moral inquiry — a tradition that has gained international attention. The film was Iran's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and screened at major international festivals. For diaspora viewers familiar with the pressures of professional conscience and the friction between institutional systems and personal ethics, the film's central tension carries a universal weight. It presents urban Iranian life — traffic, hospitals, bureaucracy, working families — with documentary-like attention to texture, and asks how far responsibility extends when proof remains just out of reach.
Where & how to watch
No Date No Signature is available on K-Time with Persian audio. You can watch it on your web browser, smart TV, or Android device — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Membership is flexible with cancel anytime terms.