A single discovery pulls the floor out from under a marriage in this 2023 Iranian short drama.
What is Gass about?
Gass runs a tight twenty minutes, and it spends every one of them on a man named Yousef learning something his wife never meant for him to find: a hidden thread still connecting her to her ex-husband. The short doesn't rush toward a confrontation so much as sit inside the hours after the discovery, watching a household reorganize itself around a secret that's stopped being secret. Director Payam Korkzan keeps the frame close and the pacing patient, letting an ordinary domestic setting carry the weight of the reveal rather than leaning on incident or spectacle. It's the kind of short that trusts a small cast and a contained space to do the heavy lifting, and it treats Yousef's unraveling as something to observe rather than explain.
About the cast
Ramin Rastad leads as Yousef, with Radnoush Moghaddam, Shahab Ghazali, Amir Zare and Mokhtar Saeghi rounding out a small ensemble built for a chamber drama rather than a sprawling cast. The short's format keeps everyone in close proximity to the central rupture, and the group works as a unit more than a lineup of individual turns.
Context & significance
Gass belongs to the Iranian short-film tradition of compressing a full domestic crisis into a single sitting, a form that has long served as a training ground and a showcase for Iranian directors working outside feature-length budgets. At twenty minutes, it's built for one uninterrupted watch, and its focus on a marriage under strain places it alongside the country's broader run of intimate relationship dramas rather than its more plot-heavy genre fare.
Watching Gass on Ktime
Gass streams on K-Time with a free account login, no purchase required to watch. K-Time's library and interface run in Farsi first, built for Persian-speaking audiences in the diaspora who want Iranian short films like this one presented the way they were made, without a detour through a second language.