Seventeen-year-old Aida has her world tilted by the sentence sitting in the film's own title — "Last night I saw your dad, Aida" — words that lodge themselves in her mind and refuse to leave. Rasoul Sadrameli's 2005 drama follows what a single intrusive thought can do to a teenage mind once it takes hold.
What is Dishab Babato Didam Aida about?
Aida is an ordinary seventeen-year-old until a name, a face, the image of a woman she cannot place begin surfacing in her thoughts, uninvited and relentless. She tries to push the image away, but it returns each time with more weight, tormenting her precisely because she cannot decide what it means. The picture in her head is dark and distant — and, she sometimes suspects, perhaps not as terrible as her fear paints it — and that ambiguity is the engine of the film. The drama stays close to her interior struggle — between loyalty and doubt, childhood trust and adult knowledge — and lets the audience share her uncertainty rather than handing out early answers.
About the cast
Khatereh Asadi heads the cast of a drama that asks its young lead to carry long stretches of the film on expression alone. Shahrokh Foroutanian and Sophie Kiani complete the principal trio, in a story where perfectly ordinary adult behaviour suddenly looks different when seen through a suspicious teenager's eyes.
Context & significance
Director Rasoul Sadrameli's name is associated with sensitive dramas about young people at the edge of the adult world, and this 2005 feature sits squarely in that territory. Rather than staging loud confrontations, it turns inward, building its drama almost entirely out of perception and doubt — the gap between what a teenager knows, what she fears and what she imagines. It runs a compact 85 minutes and is characteristic of the interest mid-2000s Iranian social cinema took in the private lives of adolescents.
Watching Dishab Babato Didam Aida on K-Time
The film streams on K-Time in its original Farsi. Reading this page is free; pressing play requires a K-Time account login. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad, with a Farsi-friendly interface and a catalogue centred on Iranian cinema, so dramas like this one sit alongside the rest of the collection.