Director: Hossein Shahabi
Cast: Pantea Bahram, Mehran Ahmadi, Ronak Yoonesi, Soodabe Beyzaei
Rooze Roshan is a 2013 Iranian drama film directed by Hossein Shahabi, running 96 minutes and centered on a kindergarten teacher who sets out to save an innocent man from execution by tracking down seven reluctant witnesses — each carrying their own secrets and self-serving reasons to stay silent.
What is Rooze Roshan HD about?
When one of her young students' fathers is arrested on a manslaughter charge and faces execution under Iran's strict legal codes, a dedicated kindergarten teacher refuses to stand aside. She knows that seven eyewitnesses exist who could change the outcome of the case, but each one has reasons to stay hidden. Moving from door to door across Tehran, she confronts layers of personal grudges, fear, and competing agendas. The film builds its tension not through courtroom spectacle but through quiet confrontations — each witness encounter peeling back another layer of the city's moral landscape. As the teacher presses deeper, the line between justice and personal interest blurs for nearly everyone involved, including herself.
Cast & crew
Director Hossein Shahabi shapes the film around a precise ensemble. Pantea Bahram leads as the tenacious teacher, bringing restrained emotional depth to a role that demands persistence without heroics. Mehran Ahmadi, Ronak Yoonesi, and Soodabe Beyzaei round out a cast of characters whose motivations are never simply good or bad — each performance rewards close attention.
Context & significance
Iranian social-realist cinema has long used intimate human dilemmas as windows onto the country's legal and moral structures, a tradition that Rooze Roshan continues with quiet confidence. For diaspora viewers, the film speaks directly to a shared understanding of how justice can be mediated by social pressure, personal debt, and institutional fear — experiences that resonate whether one left Iran a decade or a generation ago. The capital-punishment framework gives the stakes an urgency that is impossible to dismiss, yet Shahabi keeps the tone closer to a character study than a procedural. It fits naturally alongside other Iranian films that trust their audience to sit with moral complexity rather than resolve it neatly.
Where & how to watch
Rooze Roshan is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. No extra download needed and no geo-blocking — stream it on your TV, phone, or browser, wherever you are. Start watching with a K-Time subscription; cancel anytime.