Director: Hamed Rajabi
Cast: Negar Javaherian, Rambod Javan, Mehri Aleagha, Shafagh Shokri, Mahmoud Behrouzian
Paridan Az Ertefae Kam is a 2015 Iranian-French drama film directed by Hamed Rajabi, examining the invisible weight of grief within marriage. Running 88 minutes, it places a young Iranian woman at the center of a devastating private loss that those around her refuse to acknowledge.
What is Paridan Az Ertefae Kam about?
Nahal is in her fourth month of pregnancy when a routine medical visit delivers the worst possible news: the pregnancy is no longer viable. Faced with an imminent procedure and a grief she has no words for, she retreats into silence. Her husband moves through the apartment as though nothing has changed. Her mother offers distractions rather than presence. Nahal must decide whether to voice what she is carrying or continue absorbing it alone — a choice that quietly reshapes everything in her domestic world, including who she believes her husband and mother truly are.
Cast & crew
Director Hamed Rajabi draws a restrained, interior performance from Negar Javaherian in the lead role of Nahal — Javaherian is among the most respected actresses working in Iranian cinema. Rambod Javan plays her husband, and Mehri Aleagha, Shafagh Shokri, Mahmoud Behrouzian, and Sadaf Ahmadi round out the ensemble that fills Nahal's tight domestic circle.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has a long tradition of locating major emotional crises inside the family home, and Paridan Az Ertefae Kam belongs to a strand of that tradition that centers women's interior lives rather than plot mechanics. For diaspora viewers who have navigated Iranian family expectations around pregnancy, motherhood, and public composure, the film's depiction of enforced silence will feel immediately recognizable. The France-Iran co-production context gives it a certain freedom of gaze — Rajabi can observe the household with the patience of an outsider and the intimacy of an insider simultaneously, resulting in a quietly devastating portrait of a woman whose grief is treated as a private inconvenience rather than a shared loss.
Where & how to watch
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