Director: Kamal Moghadam
Cast: Mirtaher Mazloumii, Behnoush Bakhtiari, Maryam Momeni, Shahin Taslimi, Mehdi Namdari
Kadon is a 2022 Iranian comedy-family film directed by Kamal Moghadam that turns a sharp, warm eye on the way social media and virtual spaces have quietly reshaped the everyday rhythms of ordinary Iranian households, weaving together the stories of several families whose lives collide around the very screens they cannot put down.
What is Kadon about?
Several Iranian families find themselves bound together by a shared but rarely examined habit: the constant pull of online life. A father who barely looks up from his phone, a mother absorbed in messaging apps, teenagers whose world lives entirely behind a screen — Moghadam tracks how each household drifts toward disconnection even as members physically share the same rooms. When the pressures of the virtual world begin spilling into real relationships, arguments, misunderstandings, and small kindnesses, the film asks what it actually costs a family when genuine attention becomes scarce. The tone stays firmly comedic, but the stakes underneath each scene feel recognisably human.
Cast & crew
Director Kamal Moghadam guides a large ensemble that includes Mirtaher Mazloumii and Behnoush Bakhtiari as two of the film's central adult figures, alongside Maryam Momeni, Shahin Taslimi, Mehdi Namdari, Mahyar Hassan, and Razie Dehghan. The cast spans generations, allowing Moghadam to contrast how parents and children each negotiate the same digital pressures from very different vantage points.
Context & significance
Iranian social comedy has long used domestic spaces as its primary stage, and Kadon sits squarely in that tradition — but it updates the genre for a moment when smartphones and social platforms have become the central friction point in Iranian family life. For diaspora viewers, the film carries a double resonance: the recognisable habits on screen mirror dynamics playing out in Iranian households worldwide, not just in Tehran. Comedy is the vehicle, but the observations underneath — the silences at dinner tables, the half-listened conversations — land with the weight of something familiar and real. It is exactly the kind of film that travels well beyond its domestic release, because the anxieties it describes belong to no single city.
Where & how to watch
Kadon is available now on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Cancel anytime.