Director: Bahman Kamyar
Cast: Farhad Aslani, Nazanin Bayati, Saber Abar, Azita Hajian, Houman Barghnavard
Lakposht is a 2025 Iranian psychological drama directed by Bahman Kamyar, running 97 minutes and starring Farhad Aslani in a quietly devastating lead performance. The film holds an 8.0 on IMDb — rare territory for a contemporary Iranian production — and earns that standing through restraint rather than spectacle.
What is Lakposht about?
Dr. Pirouz Arjomand is a psychiatrist who has built his life around order: measured words, careful distances, the professional armour of a man who helps others manage their inner chaos while keeping his own locked away. His deepest private fear is abandonment — a wound he has learned to manage by controlling every variable around him. That arrangement fractures when a sudden death reintroduces someone from the buried past, a figure whose reappearance forces Pirouz to confront the emotions he has suppressed most carefully. What unsettles him is not drama but proximity — the slow realisation that the life he constructed so deliberately is more fragile than it looked, and that the thing he feared most may already be in motion.
The K-Time take
Kamyar directs with an unusually steady hand, letting silences carry weight that dialogue would overexplain. Aslani's performance is layered and interior — grief and dread shown in posture and glance rather than declared. The film trusts its audience to read subtext, which is both its discipline and its quiet power.
Cast & crew
Farhad Aslani, one of Iranian cinema's most dependable dramatic actors, anchors the film as Dr. Pirouz Arjomand. Nazanin Bayati, Nazanin Karimi, and Azita Hajian bring necessary weight to the women who orbit Pirouz's world, while Saber Abar, Houman Barghnavard, Jamshid Gorgin, and Alireza Aghakhani round out an ensemble that director Bahman Kamyar clearly assembled with care.
Context & significance
Iranian psychological drama has always occupied a specific niche — films that locate the political and social inside the domestic, mapping larger pressures through the architecture of a single household or a single mind. Lakposht fits squarely within that tradition while feeling contemporary in its setting and concerns. For diaspora viewers, the emotional terrain — fear of loss, the cost of emotional distance, the way professional success can paper over private fracture — carries a resonance that crosses borders. The film does not require fluency in any particular Iranian news cycle to land; it speaks in a universal idiom while remaining unmistakably Persian in its pacing and texture.
Where & how to watch
Lakposht is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.