Director: Mohammad Ali Sajjadi
Cast: Laleh Eskandari, Fardad Safaakhou, Niousha Zeighami, Ahmad Najafi, Reza Babak
Shooride is a 2006 Iranian family-social drama directed by Mohammad Ali Sajjadi, running 97 minutes. The film follows a psychiatrist drawn into the hidden world of a young woman who has attempted suicide, gradually unraveling the social and emotional pressures behind her desperate act.
What is Shooride about?
Dr. Mahyar Maravi, a psychiatrist, takes on the care of Sarir, a young woman brought in after a suicide attempt. As he works to restore her well-being, he begins probing the circumstances that brought her to such a breaking point. Each session opens another layer of family tension, social expectation, and unspoken grief. What begins as a medical duty slowly pulls the doctor into territory far more complicated than a clinical chart, confronting him with uncomfortable truths about the world his patient inhabits. The film builds its tension quietly, refusing easy answers as it traces the gap between a wounded young woman and a society that struggles to see her pain.
Cast & crew
Mohammad Ali Sajjadi directs a cast anchored by Laleh Eskandari and Fardad Safaakhou in the central roles of Sarir and Dr. Maravi. Niousha Zeighami, Ahmad Najafi, and Reza Babak round out the ensemble, each contributing to the film's layered portrait of family and professional relationships under strain.
Context & significance
Iranian social cinema of the 2000s frequently turned its lens on individuals caught between private suffering and a public culture reluctant to discuss mental health. Shooride belongs to this tradition, joining a generation of films that treated psychological crisis not as spectacle but as a window into domestic and social pressures. For diaspora viewers who grew up with similar silences around depression and self-harm, the film carries particular resonance — the psychiatrist figure serves as a proxy for the audience, asking the questions that families often cannot. The 97-minute drama also reflects an era when Iranian filmmakers were carving out space for quiet, character-driven narratives within a mainstream family genre label.
Where & how to watch
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