Director: Ayda Tabianian
Cast: Nazanin Farahani, Nahal Dashti, Peyman Jafari, Negar Moghadam
Khodeto Beresoon is a 2021 Iranian short film directed by Ayda Tabianian, running just sixteen minutes. A compact family and social drama, it examines how our instinct to untangle a problem can, paradoxically, pull the knot tighter — a premise deceptively simple yet quietly devastating.
What is Khodeto Beresoon about?
A family situation reaches a quiet breaking point, drawing together a small cast of characters who each believe they hold the right answer. Attempts to resolve the tension set off a chain of unintended consequences, and what begins as a well-meaning intervention slowly shifts into something more complicated. Tabianian withholds easy resolutions, letting the rhythm of ordinary domestic exchange carry the emotional weight. In sixteen minutes the film sketches a full arc — misunderstanding, effort, and the peculiar helplessness that arrives when good intentions outrun wisdom.
Cast & crew
Director Ayda Tabianian steers a tight ensemble anchored by Nazanin Farahani and Nahal Dashti, whose interplay carries the film's central tension with quiet precision. Peyman Jafari and Negar Moghadam round out the four-person cast, each given enough room to register a distinct emotional register within the film's brief running time.
Context & significance
Short-form Iranian cinema has a long tradition of packing social observation into compressed formats — a lineage running from the New Wave through to contemporary festival shorts. Khodeto Beresoon sits within that tradition: a domestic scene becomes a lens for examining communication breakdown, generational expectation, and the gap between intention and impact. For diaspora viewers who navigate similar family dynamics across cultures and time zones, the film's central friction — the more you try to fix, the worse it gets — lands with particular resonance. At sixteen minutes it demands little of your evening yet lingers well beyond its runtime.
Where & how to watch
Khodeto Beresoon is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, no extra download needed. Start anytime and cancel anytime.