Director: Savi Gabizon
Steady routine and small-town comfort get quietly upended in Longing (2024), a drama about how one unplanned attraction can crack open a life that looked settled from the outside.
What is Longing about?
The story centers on a metalworker and volunteer firefighter who seems content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, living the kind of unremarkable, dependable life that rarely makes headlines in his own head. That stability starts to wobble when he becomes drawn to a waitress from a nearby town, and the film spends its runtime tracking the quiet unraveling that follows rather than staging a single dramatic rupture. It is less interested in scandal than in the slow, uncomfortable process of a person realizing that contentment and happiness are not always the same thing. The small-town setting keeps the stakes intimate, and the film lets ordinary routines — shifts at the shop, calls with the fire crew, evenings at home — carry the emotional weight instead of leaning on melodrama.
Cast & crew
Diane Kruger plays the waitress whose presence upends the protagonist's sense of certainty, bringing a mix of warmth and unpredictability to the role. Richard Gere appears alongside her, adding gravity to the film's central dilemma. Shauna MacDonald, Wayne Burns, Stuart Hughes, Suzanne Clément, Tomaso Sanelli, and Tony Nappo round out the supporting cast in the surrounding small-town community.
Context & significance
Directed by Savi Gabizon, this Canada-US co-production runs a lean 88 minutes and carries a 6.6 rating on IMDb. Its brisk length matches its focus: a single relationship crisis examined closely rather than a sprawling ensemble story. Released in 2024, it belongs to a familiar tradition of small-town infidelity dramas but keeps its scope deliberately narrow and character-driven.
Where & how to watch
Longing is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, offering a Farsi interface along with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who want to follow the story in their own language.