Director: Yegane Moghaddam
Our Uniform is a 2023 Iranian animated short film directed by Yegane Moghaddam, running just seven minutes. Through the fabric and folds of a school uniform, the film quietly examines what it means to grow up female in Iran — layering personal memory with something much wider in scope.
What is Our Uniform about?
A young Iranian woman returns to her childhood through the material of an old school uniform. As she smooths out its creases and traces its stitching, fragments of her school years resurface — classrooms, rules, and the slow accumulation of expectations placed on girls. The uniform becomes a kind of archive: each fold holds a moment, each worn patch a lesson absorbed without question. The film unfolds as an intimate act of reckoning, asking how identity is shaped — stitch by stitch — long before we are old enough to choose it ourselves.
Cast & crew
Our Uniform was written and directed by Yegane Moghaddam, an Iranian animator whose work focuses on personal and societal themes rendered through hand-crafted visual storytelling. The film carries no dialogue-driven cast; Moghaddam's direction, visual composition, and animation choices are themselves the primary creative voice throughout the seven-minute runtime.
Context & significance
Short animation has long been one of the most vital corners of Iranian independent cinema — a space where filmmakers can move quickly, experiment formally, and engage subjects that longer productions rarely approach. Our Uniform sits squarely in that tradition. For diaspora viewers, the school uniform carries particular weight: a near-universal memory from childhood in Iran, loaded with gender norms, institutional routine, and the particular silence expected of girls. Moghaddam channels those shared textures into something spare and precise. The film asks its audience to sit with the ordinary and find, inside it, the formative.
Where & how to watch
Our Uniform is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. No Persian subtitles or dub are included for this title. You can watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.