ChaiFlicks to release short film Mashhad
March 19, 2026
The award-winning short film Mashhad, written and directed by actor and filmmaker Sarah Solemani (Bridget Jones’s Diary), will premiere on the Jewish streaming platform ChaiFlicks on April 6th. Ahead of its debut, the film is now available for a limited free preview on YouTube via Reboot Studios.
Mashhad reflects a moment in Iranian and Jewish history that many people are unfamiliar with but also speaks to the long relationship between the Iranian and Jewish communities and the ways diaspora identities continue to intersect. Solemani hopes this film will “generate conversations about the possibility of a more democratic and pluralistic future for Iran, the importance of women’s leadership and participation in rebuilding civic institutions, and the ways Iranian, Jewish, and diaspora communities might imagine a more hopeful future.”
Set in the holy Islamic city of Mashhad in 1930’s Iran, Mashhad follows Miriam, a spirited young Jewish girl living in the ghetto, struggling to understand why her family conceals who they are. Unbeknownst to her, an innocent day playing with a neighborhood friend soon threatens the fragile safety of two households, putting her family’s life in jeopardy. What unfolds is an extraordinary story of religion as oppression, and faith as survival, and a retelling of Iran’s long-lost ethnic group. Produced by Reboot Studios and inspired by writer-director Sarah Solemani’s family history in the Mashhadi Jewish community, the film offers a rare cinematic window into a long-suppressed chapter of Iranian Jewish life. The film will become available on ChaiFlicks beginning April 6. Audiences can watch the short film on YouTube here until it begins streaming exclusively on ChaiFlicks.
Winner of two FFTG awards, including the People’s Choice and The Grand Jury Choice Award, “Mashhad” also won Best Short Film at The Crown Wood International Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Indian Independent Film Festival.
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