Director: Hamid Rakhshani
Cast: Khosrow Shakibaiy, Fathali Oveisi, Reza Rakhshani
Parvaaz Ra Be Khater Bespaar is a 1992 Iranian social drama directed by Hamid Rakhshani, starring Khosrow Shakibaiy and Fathali Oveisi. The film unfolds around a single devastating event — the sudden disappearance of a teenage girl — and traces the grief and upheaval it leaves behind in an ordinary Iranian family.
What is Parvaaz Ra Be Khater Bespaar about?
On what should be the happiest day of her young life, fifteen-year-old Khatareh vanishes without a trace. Her birthday celebration, arranged with love and anticipation by her family, collapses into stunned silence the moment her absence is discovered. As relatives and neighbors gather, each bringing their own theories and anxieties, the household finds itself torn between desperate hope and the weight of unanswered questions. The film follows the family through the hours and days that follow, exploring how a single absence can fracture relationships, expose unspoken tensions, and force everyone involved to confront what they truly value. Rakhshani keeps the story grounded in the textures of everyday Iranian domestic life, using the mystery not as a thriller mechanism but as a lens through which the social fabric of a community comes under quiet, searching scrutiny.
Cast & crew
Director Hamid Rakhshani steers a restrained ensemble anchored by Khosrow Shakibaiy, one of Iranian cinema's most respected character actors, whose career spanned decades of socially engaged work. Fathali Oveisi and Reza Rakhshani round out the central cast, contributing grounded performances that keep the film's emotional stakes rooted in recognizable human behavior rather than melodrama.
Context & significance
Released in 1992, Parvaaz Ra Be Khater Bespaar belongs to a generation of Iranian social films that found quiet power in domestic settings. The era produced a wave of filmmakers interested less in plot mechanics than in the emotional and communal consequences of crisis — a tradition familiar to diaspora viewers who grew up watching Iranian cinema grapple honestly with family pressure, silence, and grief. For Iranians living abroad, a film like this carries a particular resonance: the family dynamics, the neighborhood solidarity, and the mixture of public composure and private anguish all speak to a world many diaspora viewers carry in their memories. It is a window into an Iran of the early post-war years, rendered without glamour or nostalgia.
Where & how to watch
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