Director: Hossein Ghenaat
Cast: Amir Hossein Sadeghi, Shaghayegh Farahani, Anahita Hemati, Zahra Jahromi, Mohammad Reza Hedayati
Selfie Ba Rostam is a 2024 Iranian drama-adventure film directed by Hossein Ghenaat, following a young girl whose quiet world fractures when her father's long-buried secrets come to light. Blending family warmth with mystery, the film runs 98 minutes and offers something rare — a Persian-language story built around a child's resilience and courage.
What is Selfie Ba Rostam about?
Helia is ten years old and her life is, by every measure, ordinary — school, home, a father who fills the quiet hours. That calm cracks open one day when truths her father kept carefully hidden begin to surface. What looked like a normal childhood turns out to rest on an unsteady foundation, and Helia — too young to be prepared for what she learns — must find her footing anyway. The story follows her as she moves through confusion, fear, and growing determination, searching for a way back to the safety she once took for granted. No single adult hands her the answers; she has to work them out herself, step by step.
Cast & crew
Director Hossein Ghenaat shapes the film around a child's-eye perspective, guiding a large ensemble through material that asks both young and adult actors to carry genuine emotional weight. Amir Hossein Sadeghi and Shaghayegh Farahani anchor the adult roles, while Anahita Hemati, Zahra Jahromi, Mohammad Reza Hedayati, Morteza Zare, Ramin Nasernasir, and Abbas Mahboub fill out the broader world Helia inhabits.
Context & significance
Iranian family cinema has a long tradition of placing children at the center of stories that are, at their core, about adult failures and adult secrets — Kiarostami built a career on it, and filmmakers after him have kept that thread alive. Selfie Ba Rostam works within that lineage: a child protagonist, a domestic mystery, and an emotional arc that moves from innocence toward hard-won understanding. For diaspora viewers raising families abroad, stories like this serve a particular purpose — they offer Persian-language characters navigating trust, honesty, and resilience in a register that translates across generations. This is the kind of film parents and children can watch side by side, each taking something different from it.
Where & how to watch
Selfie Ba Rostam is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN needed. Cancel anytime.