Director: David Bisbano
Grief and imagination collide in Dalia and the Red Book, a 2024 animated fantasy from director David Bisbano that turns a daughter's inheritance into a journey through her father's unfinished world.
What is Dalia and the Red Book about?
Dalia's father, a celebrated novelist, has just died, leaving behind one final manuscript with its ending nowhere in sight. The task of completing it falls to her, but the book resists being finished from the outside. To reach the last page, Dalia has to step inside the story itself, meeting characters who have spent years fighting over which of them deserves to be the protagonist. Each one pulls the plot in a different direction, reshaping settings and rules as they argue, and Dalia quickly realizes that closing her father's book means mediating a conflict that has nothing to do with writing and everything to do with letting go. The line between editing a story and living inside one keeps blurring the deeper she goes.
Cast & crew
Agustina Gonzalez Cirulnik voices Dalia, with Gustavo Barrientos, Mariana Correa, and Andrés Burecovics voicing the competing characters she meets inside her father's manuscript.
Context & significance
A co-production spanning Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Spain, Dalia and the Red Book holds an IMDb rating of 5.8 and runs 106 minutes, longer than most family animation, giving its story-within-a-story structure room to develop each rival character.
Where & how to watch
Dalia and the Red Book streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow its layered storybook plot without reading subtitles. The film's page is free to browse for anyone; actually watching only requires logging into a free K-Time account, with the interface presented entirely in Farsi.