Director: Saeed Soheili
Cast: Saed Soheili, Pardis Ahmadieh, Mehdi Hashemi, Amir Jafari, Hadi Kazemi
Pool Va Party is a 2024 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Saeed Soheili, exploring the search for authentic love in a society where wealth, property, and status seem to matter more than the person who holds them. At ninety minutes, it blends warm family humor with a quietly romantic heart.
What is Pool Va Party about?
Amid the glittering surface of Tehran's party culture, a man finds himself surrounded by people whose affection seems tied entirely to what he owns — his bank account, his apartment, his car. Romantic attention comes easily, yet something feels hollow at the center of it all. Then a different kind of person appears, someone whose interest has nothing to do with balance sheets or square footage. The film follows his slow, often funny, sometimes awkward journey toward recognizing what genuine connection actually feels like, and whether he is willing to risk the comfortable illusion he has built around himself to reach for it.
Cast & crew
Director Saeed Soheili also appears on screen in a supporting role, bringing an insider's warmth to the material. Pardis Ahmadieh leads opposite him with understated charm. The ensemble includes Mehdi Hashemi and Amir Jafari, both familiar faces in Iranian popular cinema, alongside Niousha Zeighami and Hadi Kazemi. Veteran actor Dariush Farhang rounds out the cast with authority.
Context & significance
Iranian romantic comedies occupy a distinctive niche: they tend to ground their humor in class anxiety, family expectations, and the gap between modern urban aspirations and older social codes. Pool Va Party fits squarely in this tradition while giving it a contemporary Tehran polish. For diaspora viewers, the film functions as a familiar cultural check-in — the parties, the social performance, the pressure to appear successful — all of it will feel immediately recognizable to anyone who grew up in or near that world. Its central question, whether genuine love can survive in an environment that monetizes almost everything, lands differently when you are watching from abroad, where questions of identity and authenticity carry extra weight.
Where & how to watch
Pool Va Party is available to stream on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.