Director: Reza Hamasi
Cast: Ali Mosaffa, Leila Zare, Sam Nouri, Mehran Nael, Pantea Mehdinia
Lakposht Va Halazoon is a 2025 Iranian drama-family film directed by Reza Hamasi, running 100 minutes. Built around the strained bond between a ten-year-old boy and his mother, the film examines how a child processes change, loss of control, and the fear that love can be divided — or replaced.
What is Lakposht Va Halazoon about?
Ten-year-old Pedram shares a small, tightly wound life with his mother Afsaneh. The two have built routines around each other, but those routines mask a simmering friction — disagreements that neither fully understands nor knows how to resolve. When Afsaneh makes plans to remarry, Pedram reacts with quiet but stubborn resistance, convinced that something fundamental is being taken from him. Into this charged domestic space enters an unusual young man whose manner is odd, unhurried, almost out of step with the world around him. Pedram is drawn to him in spite of himself, and a guarded, unlikely friendship begins to take shape — one that may offer Pedram a language for feelings he cannot yet put into words.
Cast & crew
Director Reza Hamasi brings a measured hand to the material, letting the story breathe at a child's pace rather than an adult's. Ali Mosaffa, one of Iranian cinema's most reliable character actors, plays opposite Leila Zare as Afsaneh. Sam Nouri, Mehran Nael, and Pantea Mehdinia round out a cast that keeps the emotional register grounded and specific.
Context & significance
Iranian family cinema has long used the child's point of view as a lens for social observation — a tradition stretching from Kiarostami's early work through dozens of quieter, regionally produced films that rarely travel far outside the country. Lakposht Va Halazoon sits in that lineage: a film more interested in domestic texture than dramatic event. For diaspora audiences who grew up navigating blended families, parental remarriage, or the particular loneliness of being a child who cannot yet articulate grief, the film's emotional terrain will feel immediate and familiar. The title — Tortoise and Snail — signals the story's tempo and its preoccupation with creatures that carry their homes on their backs.
Where & how to watch
Lakposht Va Halazoon is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.