Director: Hosein Torkjoosh
Cast: Mehraveh Sharifinia, Sara Rasoulzade, Milad Keymaram, Mohsen Ghasabian, Saghar Ghanaat
Salone Chahar is a 2025 Iranian drama film directed by Hosein Torkjoosh, bringing together a group of strangers inside a confined space where their separate struggles collide. Starring Mehraveh Sharifinia and an ensemble cast, it is a slow-burning chamber piece about isolation, indifference, and the weight of unspoken choices.
What is Salone Chahar about?
Four Hall follows several individuals who arrive at the same location for entirely different reasons — each carrying a private burden they have long stopped sharing with the world. As hours pass inside a single enclosed room, fragments of their lives surface through chance encounters and brief exchanges. The film holds its mysteries close, revealing character through gesture and silence rather than exposition. What begins as disconnected waiting becomes an unplanned reckoning with what each person has been running from. The ending is left deliberately open, trusting the audience to sit with what has quietly accumulated.
Cast & crew
Director Hosein Torkjoosh crafts the film around a carefully assembled ensemble. Mehraveh Sharifinia — one of Iranian cinema's most consistently compelling screen presences — anchors the material with restraint. Sara Rasoulzade, Milad Keymaram, Mohsen Ghasabian, Saghar Ghanaat, and Ladan Zhaveh Vand each carry distinct registers of grief and detachment, building a layered collective portrait within very limited physical space.
Context & significance
Iranian chamber dramas have long used confinement as a mirror for social pressure — a tradition stretching from Abbas Kiarostami's close-quarter character studies to the apartment-bound tensions of Asghar Farhadi's work. Salone Chahar participates in this lineage: a film that trusts stillness, prizes ambiguity, and understands that the most telling moments arrive between the lines of dialogue. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching characters negotiate silence and obligation, the emotional grammar here will feel immediately legible. The film also reflects a 2025 moment in Iranian filmmaking when social drama is again asking hard questions about what it means to stop caring — about oneself, about others, about what comes next.
Where & how to watch
Salone Chahar is available to stream on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, Android TV, or phone from anywhere in the world — no geo-blocking, no VPN needed. Subscription plans are flexible; cancel anytime.