Director: ebrahim irajzad
Cast: Ali Mosaffa, Parinaz Izadyar, Mina Sadati, Saber Abbar, Yasna Mirtahmasb
Tabestane Dagh is a 2017 Iranian drama film directed by Ebrahim Irajzad, following intersecting lives during a sweltering summer in Iran. With a cast led by Ali Mosaffa and Parinaz Izadyar, the film examines how heat, pressure, and circumstance strip people down to their rawest choices.
What is Tabestane Dagh about?
When an oppressive summer bears down on an Iranian city, a group of characters from different walks of life find themselves pulled into each other's orbits. Old tensions resurface between neighbors, quiet resentments between family members reach a breaking point, and strangers make choices they cannot take back. Irajzad uses the relentless heat as more than a backdrop — it becomes a force that accelerates every unresolved conflict, every deferred conversation. The story unfolds with a restrained naturalism, letting moments of silence carry as much weight as dialogue, building toward a confrontation none of the characters fully anticipated.
Cast & crew
Ali Mosaffa, one of contemporary Iranian cinema's most respected actors, brings a characteristic stillness to his role. Parinaz Izadyar, known for layered performances in Iranian drama, and Mina Sadati round out a cast that also includes Saber Abbar and Yasna Mirtahmasb — all established figures in Iran's theatrical and film landscape.
Context & significance
Iranian summer dramas occupy a distinct corner of the country's cinema tradition — films where geography and season become mood. Tabestane Dagh follows in a lineage of socially observant Iranian works that use intimate domestic settings to reflect wider tensions. For diaspora viewers, these films often carry a particular resonance: the textures of heat, the architecture of Iranian households, the cadences of everyday speech all register as cultural memory even for those who have been away for years. The film asks quiet but serious questions about complicity, inertia, and what happens when ordinary life finally cracks under pressure.
Where & how to watch
Tabestane Dagh is available to stream on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start watching today and cancel anytime.