Director: Abbas Moradian
Cast: Pejman Bazeghi, Nazanin Farahani, Atila Pesiani, Bahare Afashari, Kamran Tafti
Alma Group is a 2019 Iranian drama-music film directed by Abbas Moradian, following the collapse of a beloved musical ensemble after one member's personal crisis tears apart the bonds that held them together for fifteen years.
What is Alma Group about?
Peyman has spent fifteen years as the backbone of Alma Group, a music collective built around the guidance of the revered Master Bayat. When a reckless romantic obsession drives him to walk away, the ensemble fractures beyond repair. Years later, following the death of Master Bayat, Peyman returns to Iran hoping to reconnect with what was lost. He discovers that Alma — the group's heart and the master's daughter — has been committed to a psychiatric facility, shattered by the death of her child. Confronted with the wreckage his departure helped create, Peyman wrestles with whether love, guilt, and time are enough to reach someone who has withdrawn from the world entirely.
Cast & crew
The film brings together a strong ensemble of Iranian cinema veterans. Pejman Bazeghi leads as the conflicted Peyman, supported by Nazanin Farahani and Shaghayegh Farahani in pivotal roles. Atila Pesiani, Bahare Afashari, and Kamran Tafti round out the group, each lending the fractured ensemble dynamic its emotional texture under Moradian's direction.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora viewers, Alma Group speaks to themes that resonate beyond the screen: the weight of departure, the cost of putting personal desire above collective belonging, and the difficulty of returning to a life you once abandoned. Music as both craft and community runs through the film's core, placing it within a tradition of Iranian dramas that use the arts to map human relationships. The story of Alma herself — grief-stricken, hospitalized, unreachable — carries the kind of quiet tragedy that Persian-language cinema handles with particular depth. This is a film about what absence does to the people left behind.
Where & how to watch
Alma Group is available to stream on K-Time. The film is in Persian with no dubbed audio; watch with Persian-language subtitles if preferred. Stream on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and no extra download needed. Cancel anytime.