Director: Bahareh SadeghiJam
Cast: Babak Hamidian, Kourosh Tahami, Mina Sadati
Tanha Dar Chand Daghigheh Sokoot is a 2013 Iranian social drama directed by Bahareh SadeghiJam, running 91 minutes. The film turns its attention to the hidden fissures that form inside a marriage when personal ambition, medical uncertainty, and quiet desperation are each pulling in a different direction.
What is Tanha Dar Chand Daghigheh Sokoot about?
Amirali and Shahrzad have been married for several years, but their relationship is quietly fracturing under the weight of a deeply personal choice: whether to pursue fertility treatment. Amirali, a musician, finds his creative world collapsing — professional setbacks have left him adrift, increasingly withdrawn and skeptical about the future. Shahrzad, an ophthalmologist with a steady and methodical nature, chooses to move forward with treatment on her own terms, relying on family physician Dr. Hesam Fardmanesh for support. The distance between them widens into silence, and that silence — punctuated by small acts of concealment — slowly reshapes the marriage into something neither of them fully recognizes.
Cast & crew
Director Bahareh SadeghiJam works with a tightly focused ensemble. Babak Hamidian portrays Amirali, bringing a restrained, inward quality to a man drowning in self-doubt. Mina Sadati plays Shahrzad, grounding her in quiet resolve. Tahami takes the role of a figure caught in the household's emotional orbit, adding texture to the drama.
Context & significance
Iranian social cinema has long examined marriage not as a backdrop but as a stage where wider societal pressures play out — economic anxiety, gender expectations, the weight of family continuity. Tanha Dar Chand Daghigheh Sokoot belongs firmly in this tradition. For diaspora viewers who grew up inside Iranian family structures — where fertility, silence, and duty intertwine — the film's premise will feel immediately familiar. SadeghiJam's approach is understated, preferring accumulation over confrontation, which gives the story a quietly suffocating quality that rings true. This is the kind of domestic drama that Iranian audiences abroad often seek: specific, unsparing, and rooted in recognizable emotional terrain.
Where & how to watch
Tanha Dar Chand Daghigheh Sokoot is available on K-Time with Persian audio (original). Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Cancel anytime.