Director: Amin Matin
Cast: Amin Matin
Saat Sefr is a 2022 Iranian horror, mystery, and thriller podcast series created and directed by Amin Matin. Told in serial installments of roughly fifteen minutes each, it builds dread through voice and atmosphere, exploring the enigma of time in a format crafted specifically for Persian-speaking listeners.
What is Saat Sefr about?
The series unfolds as a serialized audio narrative centered on a riddle woven around the concept of time itself. Each episode drops the listener into an atmosphere thick with unease, where ordinary moments collapse into something darker and more unknowable. Characters find themselves caught inside situations where clocks, calendars, and familiar rhythms of daily life become unreliable — even threatening. The story is structured to reward close attention: details planted early resurface in unsettling ways, and the mystery deepens with every short episode. Because episodes run approximately fifteen minutes, the pacing is tight and the tension rarely lets up. The series is rated for mature audiences only and is not recommended for viewers under fifteen years of age.
Cast & crew
Amin Matin serves as both creator-director and the primary voice performer behind the series. Working across production and performance simultaneously, Matin shapes every tonal and narrative choice in Saat Sefr. Because the format is audio-driven, his vocal delivery and directorial instincts for pacing and silence carry the full weight of the experience.
Context & significance
Iranian audio fiction has grown quietly but steadily as a form, and Saat Sefr sits at an interesting point in that evolution — a serialized horror-mystery built around a distinctly Persian sensibility toward dread and the uncanny. For diaspora listeners, there is something particularly resonant about encountering the familiar rhythms of Persian storytelling inside a genre that is usually experienced in English or Hollywood-adjacent formats. Short episodes make the series easy to fit into a commute or a late-night listening session, and the mystery framing gives it the kind of narrative pull that encourages returning for the next installment. The explicit content warning signals that Matin is working in genuinely dark territory rather than softened genre fare.
Where & how to watch
Saat Sefr is available on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start whenever you like and cancel anytime.