Director: Ali Akbar Saghafi
Cast: Morteza Aghili, Abolfazl Poorarab, Anahita Dargahi, Mahsa Kamyabi, Majid Zahabi
High Copy is a 2025 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Ali Akbar Saghafi, following the unraveling of a decades-old partnership between two old friends after an unexpected visitor arrives from abroad to claim a long-forgotten share of their jointly owned land.
What is High Copy about?
Two longtime companions once shared ownership of a piece of land with a woman who emigrated to the United States some forty years ago. When that woman's child returns to Iran to collect the family's due portion, the visit stirs up buried tensions and dormant grievances that the two friends had quietly set aside over the years. What begins as a straightforward legal matter quickly draws both men into a web of nostalgia, rivalry, and competing versions of the past. The film uses the arrival of this outsider to examine how friendships are tested when money and memory intersect, building its comedy from the friction between the two men's conflicting recollections and stubborn pride.
Cast & crew
Director Ali Akbar Saghafi leads an ensemble that includes Morteza Aghili and Abolfazl Poorarab as the two central friends at the heart of the dispute. Anahita Dargahi, Mahsa Kamyabi, Majid Zahabi, Kazem Nourbakhsh, Arash Nozari, and Yousef Sayyadi round out the cast, each contributing to the social dynamics and comedic friction the story depends on.
Context & significance
Iranian social comedies occupy a distinctive space in Persian cinema, using humor to examine property disputes, generational obligations, and the complications that arise when emigrant families return to reclaim ties severed long ago. High Copy taps into a theme immediately recognizable to the Iranian diaspora — the gap that forms between those who stayed and those who left, and the awkwardness that fills the room when those two worlds meet again. For Persian-speaking viewers living abroad, the film holds a particular resonance: the returning child mirrors real experiences of diaspora individuals navigating inheritance, belonging, and the competing loyalties of two cultures.
Where & how to watch
High Copy is available to stream on K-Time with the original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone with no extra download required and no geo-blocking. Subscription is flexible — cancel anytime.