Director: Bahareh SadeghiJam
Cast: Babak Hamidian, Kourosh Tahami, Mina Sadati
Tanha dar Chand Daghighe Sokout is a 2013 Iranian social drama directed by Bahareh SadeghiJam, following a married couple whose silence grows louder than any argument as they face a deeply personal medical crossroads that tests everything they once shared.
What is Tanha dar chand Daghighe Sukut about?
Amirali and Shahrzad have been married for several years, but their relationship has quietly fractured. Amirali, a musician struggling with professional stagnation and a creeping sense of futility, finds himself unable to trust the world around him or envision a hopeful future. Shahrzad, a methodical and self-reliant ophthalmologist, chooses to move forward privately on a fertility treatment plan, leaning on their family physician without fully bringing her husband into that decision. The growing distance between them generates an unspoken conspiracy of secrets — each partner protecting the other from a truth they cannot yet share, and each small concealment widening the rift. The film observes how silence, rather than conflict, becomes the real force pulling two people apart.
Cast & crew
Director Bahareh SadeghiJam crafts an intimate character study with a small but precise ensemble. Babak Hamidian brings measured exhaustion to Amirali, making his quiet withdrawal feel genuinely earned. Mina Sadati portrays Shahrzad with a composed determination that masks real vulnerability. Tahami appears in a supporting role as the family physician caught between their separate confidences.
Context & significance
Iranian domestic dramas of the 2010s increasingly turned inward, examining what happens inside marriages when economic pressure and social expectation collide with private grief. This film fits that tradition, centering infertility — a subject rarely spoken aloud in diaspora households — as the catalyst for marital breakdown. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad who left Iran during a period of heightened social constraint, the film's careful restraint and focus on what goes unsaid will feel both culturally familiar and emotionally precise. SadeghiJam frames the couple's isolation as a structural problem, not a personal failure, giving the drama its quiet moral weight.
Where & how to watch
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