Nocturnal
2006, Persian. Directed by Keivan Alimohammadi & Omid Bonakdar.
A young woman tries to deal with the insight that her brother is dying. Shabnam is a photographer and sister of a famous war photographer, Hamed. Just before she goes to a party, she is told that the brother has been injured and is in hospital. Shabnam is dragged into a series of strange events, where the boundary between rus and reality is blurred. The debuting feature film directors are also film and art critics in Iran, Bonakdar himself artist - hardly surprising given the film's strong image awareness. It also has to be overlooked with the bit-wise banal depictions of cocaine scrambling and dangerous men.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Persian
- Rated
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- Released
- 20 January 2006
- Original title
- شبانه
- Country
- Iran
- Written by
- Keivan Alimohammadi, Omid Bonakdar
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Nocturnal runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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Nocturnal isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 January 2006. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Nocturnal?
Nocturnal (2006) was directed by Keivan Alimohammadi and Omid Bonakdar and stars Hedie Tehrani, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Setare Eskandari.