Director: Ali Hashemi
Cast: Nazanin Bayati, Ali Ghasemi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Mehdi Hashemi, Linda Kiani
Zaferanieh 14 Tir is a 2025 Iranian drama film directed by Ali Hashemi, following a wealthy Tehran family whose comfortable world is quietly upended when their youngest daughter returns from abroad carrying an unexpected announcement that sets the household on edge.
What is Zaferanieh 14 Tir about?
Mahrokh, the youngest daughter of the prosperous Anousheh household, arrives home after two months away and tells her parents she has brought a surprise. The family quickly learns she intends to marry — but the identity of her chosen partner is unknown until the following morning. When she introduces him, his arrival sets off a chain of tensions, revelations, and competing loyalties inside the family. The story unfolds over a single emotionally loaded day — the fourteenth of Tir — which also happens to be the birthday of Meymant, the warm and devoted Anousheh matriarch, turning a day meant for celebration into one that tests every family bond.
Cast & crew
Director Ali Hashemi leads a cast anchored by Nazanin Bayati and Hengameh Ghaziani, two well-regarded presences in contemporary Iranian cinema, alongside Mehdi Hashemi, Linda Kiani, Ali Ghasemi, and Masoud Rayegan. Together they form a recognisable ensemble of seasoned Iranian screen actors whose work spans both popular and prestige productions.
Context & significance
Iranian family dramas set inside upper-middle-class Tehran households have long formed a distinctive strand of the country's social cinema, exploring generational friction, arranged expectations around marriage, and the quiet weight of family obligation. Zaferanieh 14 Tir sits firmly in that tradition, using a single day and a single announcement to expose the fault lines beneath a polished domestic surface. For diaspora viewers, that dynamic carries extra resonance — the film speaks to tensions many Iranian families abroad recognise across borders and generations, where questions of partner choice, family honour, and individual freedom remain intensely personal. The northern Tehran neighbourhood of Zaferanieh itself functions almost as a character: a shorthand for a certain affluent social world whose anxieties are universal even when the setting is specific.
Where & how to watch
Zaferanieh 14 Tir is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, your TV, or your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Start watching with a K-Time subscription and cancel anytime.