After graduating from Soore University with a Bachelor in Film and Television, study area Directing, Saeed ROUSTAEE (1989, Iran) made his feature debut <strong>Life and a Day</strong> in 2015, which won awards at several film festivals. His work primarily focuses on social injustice within Iranian society. For his second feature <strong>Just 6.5</strong>, Roustaee won the Best Director Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019.

Saeed Roustaee

Fascinating nail-biter of a police drama about drug dealing in Iran where the number of addicts has increased exponentially in recent years.

Samad works for the drug squad in Iran. He and his colleagues start hunting feared drug baron Nasser Khakzad, but differences of opinion and Iranian bureaucracy interfere. Nothing is easy in this layered, nail-biting, superbly acted police film that maps out Iran's drug problem.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Saeed Roustaee

Filmography

Saeed Roustaee at IFFR

Just 6.5