Director: Abbas Moradian
Cast: Ali Osivand, Danial Ebadi, Fariba Talebi, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Ronak Arjmand
Lajbazi is a 2023 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Moradian, running 82 minutes and following a veterinarian on the verge of divorce whose carefully ordered life fractures when two unexpected arrivals force everyone to reckon with buried truths about love, property, and the quiet compromises couples make.
What is Lajbazi about?
Roya, a veterinarian with a steady professional life, has reached the end of her marriage to Pejman, a real-estate developer who builds apartments and navigates deals with practiced ease. She visits a lawyer to begin the divorce process, hoping to close one chapter cleanly. Then Leila and Dariush arrive unannounced, and the situation shifts in ways none of the four anticipated. Old grievances surface, alliances form and dissolve, and the practical matter of ending a marriage opens into something far more complicated. Moradian keeps the story intimate and largely confined to interior spaces, letting the pressure build through conversation rather than event, until every character must decide what they are actually willing to live without.
Cast & crew
Director Abbas Moradian crafts a chamber drama built on restrained performance. Ali Osivand and Danial Ebadi anchor the male perspectives while Fariba Talebi, Kamand Amirsoleimani, and Ronak Arjmand each bring distinct registers to the women caught in the story's orbit, keeping the ensemble balanced across its compact 82-minute runtime.
Context & significance
Contemporary Iranian domestic drama has long found its richest material inside the apartment and the law office — spaces where modern aspirations collide with traditional expectations around marriage, property, and identity. Lajbazi sits squarely in this tradition, speaking directly to diaspora viewers who recognize the particular pressures of Iranian middle-class family life: the weight of appearances, the negotiations around real estate as social currency, and the way divorce still carries a stigma that forces couples into elaborate performances before the break finally comes. For Iranian audiences abroad, films like this offer a frank window into a social world that family WhatsApp groups rarely discuss openly.
Where & how to watch
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