Director: Hossein Namazi
Cast: Sina Mehrad, Nazanin Bayati, Gelare Abbasi, Behrang Alavi, Roya Teymourian
Shadravan is a 2022 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Hossein Namazi, following a working-class family on the outskirts of Tehran as they struggle to hold themselves together after losing the one person who kept everything running — their father, a vegetable seller whose absence leaves a void far larger than his modest income.
What is Shadravan about?
When a peripheral Tehran family's patriarch dies without warning, five people are suddenly forced to reckon with both grief and survival at the same time. The eldest son and his siblings had grown up assuming their father's quiet daily labor — hauling and selling produce at the city's edge — would simply continue. Now each family member must confront their own limitations, unspoken tensions, and buried resentments. The film observes how ordinary people, with no financial cushion and nowhere to turn, improvise their way through loss — one difficult conversation, one small humiliation, and one unexpected moment of solidarity at a time.
Cast & crew
The film stars Sina Mehrad and Nazanin Bayati as the central siblings anchoring the family drama, supported by Gelare Abbasi, Behrang Alavi, Roya Teymourian, Bahram Ebrahimi, and Reza Rouygari. Director Hossein Namazi draws restrained, naturalistic performances from the ensemble, keeping the focus on the family's collective emotional truth rather than any single standout turn.
Context & significance
Shadravan sits within a long tradition of Iranian social realism — quiet, observational films that find universal weight in the details of working-class life. For diaspora viewers who grew up in families where every monthly expense was a calculation, the film's setting (a household on the urban fringe, income from a vegetable stall) will feel immediately legible. It belongs alongside Iranian comedies that use lightness of touch not to minimize hardship but to make it bearable — a mode the Iranian cinema has refined over decades. Watching it from abroad, the film also works as a portrait of a Tehran that rarely appears on screen: peripheral, unglamorous, and fully alive.
Where & how to watch
Shadravan is available now on K-Time with original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra downloads required. Start or cancel your membership anytime.