''Blockage'' (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: سد معبر,

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: Sade Ma'bar) is a 2017 Iranian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Mohsen Gharaie and written by

Saeed Roustayi Saeed Roustaee ( Persian: سعید روستایی, born August 14, 1989), also spelled Saeed Roustayi, is an Iranian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. His works primarily focus on issues of social injustice, as well as his portrayals of wom ...

. The film screened for the first time at the 35th

Fajr Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival (), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; ), has been held every February in Tehran since 1983. The festival is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Iran), Ministry of Culture ...

and received 4 nominations. It was released on December 27, 2017, in Iran theatrically.

Premise

Ghasem ( Hamed Behdad), a municipality employee uses his position to put his hands on other people's money to collect enough to buy a truck, while his wife Narges ( Baran Kosari) threatens to abort their child if he does not buy a house with their savings.

Cast

* Hamed Behdad as Ghasem * Baran Kosari as Narges * Nader Fallah as Rasool * Gity Ghasemi as Razieh * Mohsen Kiaee as Mehdi * Negar Abedi as Mona * Alireza Kamali as Ghasem's colleague * Bahram Sorouri Nejad

Reception

Critical response

Accolades

References

External links

* {{New Currents Films set in Tehran Films shot in Iran Iranian drama films 2010s Persian-language films 2017 drama films 2017 films