Director: Ghazaleh Soltani
Cast: Mehraveh Sharifinia, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Ghaderi
Parseh Dar Havali Man is a 2017 Iranian drama film directed by Ghazaleh Soltani, following a young woman navigating ambition, solitude, and selfhood amid the noise and anonymity of Tehran. The film offers a quiet, introspective portrait of modern Iranian womanhood at a personal crossroads.
What is Parseh Dar Havali Man about?
Sayeh is a thirty-year-old woman living alone in Tehran, caught between the pull of her aspirations and the weight of daily urban life. The film traces her routines, relationships, and interior world as she wrestles with questions of identity and purpose. Rather than building toward a conventional plot climax, the story lingers on small moments — a conversation, a silence, a choice deferred — to reveal who Sayeh is and what she is willing to risk for the life she imagines for herself. The city functions as both backdrop and pressure, shaping the boundaries within which she searches for meaning.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Ghazaleh Soltani, an Iranian filmmaker whose work centers women's experience and inner life. The cast is led by Mehraveh Sharifinia, one of contemporary Iranian cinema's most expressive actors, alongside the acclaimed Behnaz Jafari, whose stage and screen presence brings depth to every role she takes, and Babak Ghaderi, who rounds out the principal ensemble.
Context & significance
Iranian slow cinema has long excelled at portraying women's interior lives against the backdrop of city life — a tradition with roots in the works of Abbas Kiarostami and continued by a younger generation of female directors. Parseh Dar Havali Man sits within this lineage, prioritizing emotional realism over melodrama. For diaspora viewers, the Tehran of this film carries a particular resonance: it is recognizable yet distant, familiar in its streets and pressures yet seen through the lens of memory and longing. The film speaks to the universal experience of constructing a self in a city that rarely stops to notice you.
Where & how to watch
Parseh Dar Havali Man is available on K-Time with Persian audio. You can watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime. No extra download needed to get started.