A lakeside villa, a circle of old friends, and one guest nobody expected — from that simple setup, Latyan (2020) builds a slow-burning drama of suspicion. Ali Teymouri's 97-minute film pairs Parinaz Izadyar and Amir Jadidi as a young couple whose getaway curdles, with Alireza Sani Far completing the central triangle.
What is Latyan about?
A young married couple leave Tehran for a short holiday, joining friends at a villa by the water. The mood starts light — food, jokes, shared history — until the husband realises that one of the guests carries a past he knew nothing about. What begins as a flicker of doubt hardens into open mistrust, and as the days wear on, half-buried secrets surface one after another: about the marriage, about the friendships, and about choices made long before anyone packed a bag. The villa, meant to be a refuge, turns into a pressure chamber where every casual conversation seems to carry a second meaning, and where the group must decide how much truth their bonds can survive.
About the cast
Parinaz Izadyar and Amir Jadidi were two of the busiest leading actors in Iranian cinema at the turn of the 2020s, and Latyan puts their contrasting styles to work: Izadyar's guarded stillness set against Jadidi's restless, wounded energy. Alireza Sani Far, a dependable character actor with a long list of credits in Iranian film and television, rounds out the ensemble as one of the friends whose very presence unsettles the group.
Context & significance
The film takes its name from Latyan, the dam and lake northeast of Tehran whose surrounding villas are a familiar weekend escape for the capital's middle class — a setting Iranian audiences recognise instantly. Director Ali Teymouri uses that geography the way many recent Iranian dramas do: a trip out of the city becomes a device for stripping characters of their routines and forcing hidden tensions into the open. Released in 2020, Latyan joins a line of Persian-language chamber dramas about marriage, jealousy and the fragility of friendships that have lasted longer than the honesty holding them together.
Watching Latyan on K-Time
Latyan streams on K-Time in its original Persian audio. The page you are reading is open to everyone; watching takes only a K-Time account login, after which the film is available on smart TVs, phones and the web — a Persian-language experience designed for the Iranian diaspora.