Director: Shabnam Orfinejad
Cast: Saleh Mirza Aghayi, Shahram Haghighat Doost, Hassan Moazeni, Roya Nonahali
Poshte Dar Khabari Nist is a 2015 Iranian social drama directed by Shabnam Orfinejad, exploring the quiet tensions that accumulate behind closed doors in everyday Iranian family life. The film presents a grounded, observational portrait of contemporary domestic reality.
What is Poshte Dar Khabari Nist about?
Behind a seemingly ordinary apartment door, a household carries the weight of unspoken grievances and shifting relationships. The story unfolds through a series of intimate encounters and quiet confrontations between the people who share this space — each one guarding their own version of events, their own sense of what is owed and what has been lost. As routines are disrupted and silences grow harder to maintain, the film examines how much of daily life is sustained by things left unsaid, and what happens when those silences begin to crack. It is a story of proximity without closeness, and of the distance that can exist even between people who live under the same roof.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Shabnam Orfinejad, an Iranian filmmaker whose work gravitates toward social realism and intimate character studies. The cast includes Saleh Mirza Aghayi, Shahram Haghighat Doost, Hassan Moazeni, and Roya Nonahali — a group of accomplished Iranian screen actors with experience across film and television productions.
Context & significance
Iranian social drama has a long tradition of finding the political in the personal — of using the family home as a stage where larger social pressures play out through ordinary interactions. Poshte Dar Khabari Nist sits within this lineage, offering diaspora viewers a recognizable world: the apartment building, the family dispute, the coded language of people who know each other too well. For Iranians living abroad, these films serve as a way of staying connected to a cultural register that is harder to find outside Iran — the specific humor, the exact weight of a silence, the texture of domestic negotiation.
Where & how to watch
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