Director: Rasoul Sadrameli
Cast: Farhad Ayish, Anahita Afshar, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamed Behdad, Andishe Fooladvand
Zandegi ba cheshmane baste is a 2010 Iranian drama film directed by Rasoul Sadrameli, exploring the emotional entanglements of two couples whose relationships are tested by unspoken needs, unresolved doubts, and the quiet weight of unexamined choices.
What is Zandegi ba cheshmane baste about?
Behrad finds himself at a crossroads in his relationship with Aram, unable to articulate what holds him back or draws him forward. Meanwhile, Roya struggles with her own uncertainty about the man she is with and what she truly wants from the future. The film follows these two parallel emotional arcs as the characters circle each other's lives, each carrying private tensions they cannot easily name. Through understated scenes of everyday life, longings surface and recede without dramatic rupture. Sadrameli builds the narrative slowly, letting silences and small gestures carry the weight that dialogue often leaves unspoken.
Cast & crew
The film stars Farhad Ayish and Anahita Afshar alongside Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iranian cinema's most recognizable performers with a long record of acclaimed dramatic roles. Hamed Behdad, Andishe Fooladvand, Farhad Ghaemian, Poulad Kimiayi, and Parivash Nazarieh round out an experienced ensemble that brings restraint and naturalism to the material.
Context & significance
Rasoul Sadrameli is a filmmaker whose work consistently centers on intimate human relationships within contemporary Iranian society, charting emotional interiors rather than external spectacle. Zandegi ba cheshmane baste — roughly translated as Living with Eyes Closed — fits squarely within the Iranian quiet-drama tradition: films that observe rather than judge, and that find complexity in the ordinary friction of romantic partnership. For diaspora viewers, titles like this carry the texture of a domestic world they recognize from memory or family history, framed through a cinematic sensibility that prizes patience and emotional honesty. The 90-minute runtime keeps things focused and uncluttered.
Where & how to watch
Zandegi ba cheshmane baste is available to stream on K-Time. The film plays in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web browser, a smart TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.