Director: Simon Lyndon
A sudden death, a failing farm, and a father-in-law drowning in his own grief — "Just a Farmer" is a quiet Australian drama about what it takes to keep going when everything else has stopped.
What is Just A Farmer about?
When Alison's husband dies without warning, she's left holding together a struggling farm she never planned to run alone, alongside a father-in-law who has turned to drink to numb his own loss. The film follows her through the practical grind of rural survival — debts, drought, livestock, machinery that keeps breaking down — while the emotional wreckage of the family unfolds in the background. Old wounds between generations resurface as Alison and her father-in-law circle each other, unable to grieve the same way or offer each other much comfort. Around them, a small farming community absorbs its own share of the loss, its rhythms of mutual obligation and quiet endurance offering the only real support system either of them has left. What emerges isn't a redemption arc so much as a portrait of people learning, unevenly, to carry on.
Cast & crew
Leila McDougall leads the film as Alison, carrying much of its emotional weight opposite Robert Taylor as her grief-stricken father-in-law. Joel Jackson and Susan Prior appear in key supporting roles, with Oliver Overton, Vivian McDougall, Damian Walshe-Howling, and Trevor Jamieson rounding out a cast drawn largely from Australian film and television.
Context & significance
Directed by Simon Lyndon, "Just a Farmer" sits within a tradition of Australian rural drama that treats the land itself as a character — unforgiving, demanding, and indifferent to the grief playing out on it. Rather than dramatizing a single crisis, the film builds its tension from accumulation: unpaid bills, an aging structure of family obligation, and the slow, unglamorous labor of keeping a property afloat. At 106 minutes, it favors observation over plot mechanics.
Where & how to watch
"Just a Farmer" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow its understated drama in their own language. The film's page can be read without logging in; watching the film itself requires only a free K-Time account, part of a platform built around Farsi-language streaming for Iranians abroad.