

Shamila lives in Iran with her two siblings. They are Afghan immigrants whose parents were tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul. After two years of residing in Iran, they attempt to enroll their younger brother, Samir, in school, but the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran prevent them from doing so.
Shamila lives in Iran with her two siblings. They are Afghan immigrants whose parents were tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul. After two years of residing in Iran, they attempt to enroll their younger brother, Samir, in school, but the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran prevent them from doing so.
NEST
Iran 2025 / 13′
a film by
Sayed Ali Hashemi
with
Shamila Shirzad
Mehrnoosh Hajikhani
Sepide Molavi
Ahmadreza Hashemi
Amirhosein Mashayekhi
Masoud Jafari
Screenplay | Sayed Ali Hashemi Malihe Aghaei |
Director of Photography | Adib Sobhani |
Production Design | Hamed Aslani |
Costume Design | Shohre Samimi |
Editor | Shahin Sabzravan |
Composer | Payam Azadi |
Sound | Omid Karim Shoar |
Producer | Ilhan Shah |
Production Company | Ilhan Pro |
Distribution | Esen Studios |
Sayed Ali Hashemi
Sayed Ali Hashemi was born in Afghanistan, in 1997. He lives and works in Iran. He studied at IAUM (Islamic Azad University of Mashhad ) at bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. Since 2018 he has been working as a professional lighting crew in over one hundred short films, five series and five feature films.
Nest is his first short as director.
Director statement
The initial idea for the screenplay Nest comes from everything I have experienced in my whole life as an immigrant —an experience rooted in fear and anxiety over matters that may seem trivial yet manifest as trauma and side effects in the lives of immigrants. For me, the experience of children, especially girls, in the context of migration has always been intertwined with profound sorrow and grief.