Director: Nadia Zoe
Cast: Alma Martinez, Marissa Reyes, Romi Dias, Diana Elizabeth Torres, Jeff Meacham
A Little Family Drama is a 2025 American drama-comedy film directed by Nadia Zoe, set against the backdrop of a beloved Mexican American family restaurant on the eve of their annual reunion dinner — an evening that quietly unravels secrets no one saw coming.
What is A Little Family Drama about?
The Reyes family has built its identity around their landmark restaurant, a gathering place where three generations converge each year for their celebrated reunion dinner. As final preparations unfold, every member arrives carrying burdens they have kept hidden. Simmering tensions, competing ambitions, and long-buried resentments surface once word spreads that the family's beloved taco truck venture has collapsed — threatening not just finances but the carefully maintained mythology of togetherness they have spent decades protecting. Director Nadia Zoe frames the chaos through overlapping conversations, interrupted toasts, and the smells of a kitchen running at full tilt, building toward a night that will force everyone to reckon with what actually holds a family together.
Cast & crew
Director Nadia Zoe anchors the film with a sharp eye for domestic comedy, drawing nuanced performances across a large ensemble. Alma Martinez and Marissa Reyes carry the dramatic weight at the family's centre, while Diana Elizabeth Torres, Jeff Meacham, and Alex Alpharaoh each bring distinct comic texture. Ramón Olmos Torres and Romi Dias round out the dinner table with supporting turns that deepen the film's warm but unflinching family portrait.
Context & significance
Family reunion stories resonate particularly strongly with diaspora audiences who have experienced the particular pressure of occasions built around collective memory and unspoken expectation. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, the Reyes household's dynamic — pride in a family business, generational tension over tradition versus independence, the restaurant as an anchor of identity — maps readily onto shared experience. A Little Family Drama is available on K-Time in its original English audio without Persian dubbing or subtitles, which makes it most accessible to viewers comfortable with English or looking for a bilingual household watch.
Where & how to watch
A Little Family Drama is available now on K-Time in original English audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.