Fresh out of prison, fresh into chaos — this family reunion goes OFF the rails.
Acting
Hayaei's volcanic presence — you can't look away even when you want to.
Direction
Kaveri's claustrophobic framing turns every room into a pressure cooker.
Director
Ahmad Kaveri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during a wave of Iranian social-realist dramas that sidestepped explicit censorship by focusing on family implosions as metaphors for national fracture.
The title's double meaning — 'self-hitting' as both self-sabotage and the cyclical violence Kianoosh inflicts on everyone in his orbit, including himself.
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