Nader has just been deported from Turkey, and the first door he knocks on belongs to his sister — a household already sinking under its debts. Kefayate Mozakerat, a 2025 Iranian comedy from director Soheil Movaffagh, begins with that awkward homecoming and lets one outrageous proposal do the rest.
What is Kefayate Mozakerat about?
Back in Iran with no money and nowhere else to go, Nader moves in with his sister's family and, predictably, makes their strained finances worse. Then he arrives with an idea he insists can rescue everyone: an arrangement involving surrogacy, with a payout large enough to clear the family's debts in one stroke. What sounds on paper like a clean transaction turns into a chain of negotiations, as spouses, relatives and neighbours are pulled one by one into a scheme none of them can quite admit to out loud. The comedy grows out of the gap between the family's carefully kept respectability and the deal they are all trying to keep hidden.
About the cast
Mehran Ghafourian and Mohsen Kiaei head an ensemble that also features Iman Safa, Roya Mirelmi, Elmira Dehghani, Hadis Fouladvand, Ghodratollah Izadi and Mohammad-Reza Davoudnejad. The picture leans on Ghafourian's long comic track record and Kiaei's timing, while the household roles carry the story's family-drama undertow.
Context & significance
Directed by Soheil Movaffagh, Kefayate Mozakerat premiered at the 43rd Fajr Film Festival before reaching cinemas in 2025; it runs about 101 minutes and mixes comedy with family and social drama. Surrogacy is a subject Iranian cinema has usually treated solemnly; handling it as farce places the picture in a strand of recent Iranian social comedies that use taboo topics as engines for embarrassment and escalation. The title borrows a phrase from parliamentary procedure — a motion declaring that discussion is over — which the story applies, with some irony, to a family whose negotiations never seem to end.
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