Director: Mohammad Hormozi
Cast: Abdolreza Parsa, Mehrbanoo Bateni
Harmony is a 2022 Iranian sci-fi thriller directed by Mohammad Hormozi, blending action and horror into a claustrophobic story set in a near-future medical facility where the line between care and exploitation collapses. At 72 minutes it moves fast and unsettles early.
What is Harmony about?
Sophia is a soldier pulled off the front line after sustaining serious wounds. She wakes inside a sterile, remote medical center alongside a fellow combatant, expecting standard military rehabilitation. Instead, the facility's routines feel wrong — schedules shift without explanation, staff answer in contradictions, and other patients seem to disappear without discharge. As Sophia's suspicion sharpens, she begins piecing together evidence that the institution was never designed for healing. What was meant to be recovery becomes a fight for survival, and the true purpose of the operation slowly surfaces in ways neither soldier anticipated.
Cast & crew
Director Mohammad Hormozi works within Iran's genre-cinema fringe, steering an intimate cast through high-concept material on a tight production scale. Lead Abdolreza Parsa anchors the procedural tension as a soldier whose instincts override his injuries, while Mehrbanoo Bateni brings a controlled unease to the supporting arc, both performers sustaining credibility through scenarios that demand physical commitment.
Context & significance
Iranian genre cinema rarely reaches diaspora audiences in its rawest form — most mainstream exports lean toward social drama or literary adaptation. Harmony sits squarely in a smaller tradition: low-budget Iranian horror-thrillers that draw on global genre conventions while rooting their moral stakes in recognizable authority structures. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, the military-medical setting carries a particular weight, evoking institutional distrust that resonates beyond any single country. The film reflects a growing domestic appetite for science fiction framing in Iranian storytelling, a space where censorship-adjacent metaphors and genre excitement can coexist.
Where & how to watch
Harmony is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio with English subtitles — no Persian dub or subtitles are included in this release. Stream it on the web, a connected TV, or your phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking. Sign up and cancel anytime.