Director: Khosro Masumi
Cast: Akbar Moazezi, Elham Nami, Khayam Vaghar, Levon Haftvan, Masoud Forootan
Kare Kasif (Dirty Work) is a 2024 Iranian drama film directed by Khosro Masumi, following a desperate man whose illegal alcohol trade unravels into catastrophe just as he stands on the threshold of a new life abroad. Running 104 minutes, it is a morally charged portrait of guilt, family fracture, and the high cost of shortcuts.
What is Kare Kasif about?
Farhad is a law student without steady work who supplements his income by selling bootleg alcohol. When he wins the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery, he sees a door opening onto a future he had only imagined — and promptly travels to Turkey with his wife Elham and their young son Navid to complete the visa process. Word reaches him mid-journey that a party supplied with his alcohol ended in poisoning: several people dead, others fighting for their sight in hospital beds. The revelation lands on Farhad not as news but as a verdict. Elham, hearing the truth, turns on him and resolves to take the boy back to Iran. Before anyone can act on their plans, a second unforeseen event strips away the last solid ground beneath Farhad's feet, leaving both his migration dream and his family in ruins.
Cast & crew
Director Khosro Masumi shapes a tightly wound domestic thriller around Akbar Moazezi as the guilt-ridden Farhad and Elham Nami as his wife Elham. The ensemble includes Khayam Vaghar, Levon Haftvan, Masoud Forootan, Mehran Nael, Mehrdad Falahatger, and Payam Ahmadinia — a varied cast that lends the Istanbul-set scenes an authentic, lived-in texture.
Context & significance
Kare Kasif arrives at a moment when migration narratives occupy the heart of contemporary Iranian cinema. For the diaspora, the film's Istanbul transit — a city many Iranian families know personally as a waiting room between two worlds — will feel immediately recognizable. The story does not moralize cheaply; instead it uses the Green Card lottery as an ironic frame: the dream of legal departure colliding with an act that cannot be undone. Themes of collective survival, economic desperation, and the fractures that secrets open inside a marriage speak directly to audiences who have navigated similar crossroads. The 4.5 IMDb rating reflects a modest theatrical footprint, but word-of-mouth among diaspora viewers has grown steadily since its 2024 release.
Where & how to watch
Kare Kasif is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing. Stream it on the web, your Android TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking anywhere in the world. Subscribe and cancel anytime.