Queen Alishon (Malakeh Alishon) sends a frightened boy through a tunnel in time and drops him in an enchanted, fire-scarred forest — an 83-minute Iranian fantasy adventure for families, directed by Ebrahim Nooravar Mohammad and released in 2025.
What is Malakeh Alishon about?
Ador has grown up poor, raised by his grandfather after losing both parents when he was very young. The old man has always told him that jungle fever took them, so the boy has learned to hate the forest with all his heart — to him it is the thing that stole his family. After a bitter argument at home, Ador runs away and finds himself at the edge of a forbidding wood. There, something stranger than any fever waits: a passage through time itself pulls him in and delivers him to a burned forest ruled by a fairy queen named Alishon. In her realm, Ador begins to uncover what really happened to his parents — and the name of the sinister creature, Kayot, that stands behind it all.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Nastaran Seifi and Nasim Abdi, joined by Amirreza Esmaeili, Saeed Fazel Saatchi, Saba Mansouri, Fatemeh Zahmatkesh, Arezoo Mehtari and Mitra Shojaei. Iranian family fantasies of this kind typically lean on a large cast to populate their magical worlds — queens, guardians, villagers and creatures — and this production follows that pattern, spreading its roles across eight credited performers.
Context & significance
Homegrown fantasy aimed at children remains a fairly small corner of Iranian cinema, which makes a fairy-tale adventure like this one something of a rarity next to the comedies and social dramas that dominate each year's releases. Nooravar Mohammad's picture works with classic storybook ingredients — an orphaned hero, a hidden family secret, a magical ruler, an evil being with a name whispered in fear — and wraps them in a Persian-language package that parents can put on for younger viewers without translation. At a compact 83 minutes, it is paced for a family evening rather than an epic sitting.
Watching Malakeh Alishon on Ktime
You can watch Queen Alishon on K-Time after a free account login; this page itself is open to read without one. K-Time is made for Persian-speaking families outside Iran, with a fully Farsi interface on TV, web and mobile — handy when the youngest viewers in the house are the ones picking what to play.