Director: Nahid Hassanzadeh
Cast: Majid Potki, Yasaman Nosrati, Shaghayegh Kamandi, Fariba Khademi, Fateme Mortazi
Zamani Digar is a 2016 Iranian drama film directed by Nahid Hassanzadeh, following a factory worker who is released from prison after a period of labor unrest and returns home to find his life profoundly changed. The film runs 82 minutes and carries an IMDb rating of 6.4.
What is Zamani Digar about?
Qadir works at a chemical plant and finds himself imprisoned following a wave of labor protests at his workplace. After roughly a year behind bars, he is unexpectedly released. Returning home, he discovers that the world around him has shifted in ways he did not anticipate — relationships have changed, routines have been disrupted, and the family life he left behind looks nothing like the one he steps back into. The film traces his effort to re-establish himself within a domestic and social order that moved on without him, examining the quiet weight of absence and the difficulty of reintegration.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Nahid Hassanzadeh. The cast includes Majid Potki in the lead role of Qadir alongside Yasaman Nosrati, Shaghayegh Kamandi, Fariba Khademi, Fateme Mortazi, and Esmat Rezapour. Each performer contributes to the restrained, intimate register that defines the film's domestic drama and the emotional tension running through its family portrait.
Context & significance
Iranian social drama has a strong tradition of centering ordinary working-class figures whose private lives intersect with larger structural pressures. Zamani Digar fits within that lineage — a film less interested in courtrooms or spectacle than in the quiet aftermath of institutional intervention on a family unit. For diaspora viewers, this kind of story resonates as an unflinching look at life inside Iran, rendered without melodrama. The film's focus on labor, incarceration, and domestic consequence gives it a grounded quality that speaks to viewers familiar with the weight everyday Iranians carry, wherever they now live.
Where & how to watch
Zamani Digar is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. No subtitles or dub are listed for this title. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.