Pardeh

Choose your movie night

Big family tensions. Small personal chances. Your next Persian film.

A family arguing over its future. A man with two days to solve a debt. A seventy-year-old woman taking a chance on love. These films begin with very different kinds of pressure. Pick the feeling you want tonight, then explore the story behind the poster.

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When money puts family loyalties to the test

For a drama with several competing voices, start with Baradaran-e Leila: her plan for the family has to survive everyone else’s priorities. Ghahreman makes the dilemma more concentrated, giving Rahim just two days outside prison to negotiate a solution to his debt. Abad va Yek Rooz takes you into wedding preparations, where the family’s existing problems make a new beginning anything but simple.

When you want a story closer to the heart

Keyk-e Mahbub-e Man puts one woman’s possibility of change at the centre. Mahin’s decision to seek companionship at seventy makes this an intimate alternative to a crowded family argument. Dar Aghush-e Derakht shifts attention to the children’s world: a marriage crisis matters here because of what it does to their sense of safety. Choose between an adult taking a chance and a family living with the consequences of change.

For comedy, choose the kind of chaos

Hotel brings unexpected guests into one shared setting. Vilaye Saheli starts with an unfamiliar household arrangement and the arrival of a relative. Both offer misunderstandings between people who cannot easily avoid one another. Zudpez has a sharper contrast: a domestic accident unfolds during Tehran’s bombardment. Pick the setting that interests you as well as the comedy label.

Have less than two hours?

Check the running time on each card before you choose. Compare Keyk-e Mahbub-e Man’s intimate romance with Vilaye Saheli’s household comedy, then see which fits the time you have. If you want to explore a larger family conflict, open Baradaran-e Leila and check its details too. Runtime is a practical way to narrow the choice without deciding the whole evening by genre alone.

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