Director: Nader Barahanimarand
Cast: Ahmad Kaveri, Amir Jafari, Bahram Afshari, Nahid Moslemi, Setareh Pesiani
Paeez is a 2014 Iranian theatre-drama series directed by Nader Barahanimarand, exploring the fractured relationship between two brothers whose opposing worldviews — shaped by war, memory, and family loyalty — pull a household apart across a slow, painful autumn.
What is Paeez about?
Ali returned from the front carrying the weight of comrades and trenches that never left him. His mind still walks the battlefield even as he sits at the family table, and his behavior reflects that unresolved interior war. Javad, the elder brother, has moved forward with civilian life and finds Ali's fixation impossible to accept. Their growing disagreement spills into the entire household, straining bonds that once held the family together. Set against the quiet backdrop of an ordinary home, the drama unfolds through arguments, silences, and the slow recognition that two people who love each other can speak entirely different emotional languages — languages shaped by experiences one of them will never fully understand.
Cast & crew
Director Nader Barahanimarand brings a theatre-rooted sensibility to the material, favoring contained spaces and sustained tension over visual spectacle. Ahmad Kaveri and Amir Jafari anchor the central conflict as the two brothers, supported by Bahram Afshari, Nahid Moslemi, and Setareh Pesiani, who together give the family ensemble its warmth and believable friction.
Context & significance
Stories about veterans returning from the Iran-Iraq War carry a particular resonance for the Iranian diaspora, a generation that either lived through that era or grew up hearing it described in fragments. Paeez belongs to a quiet strand of Iranian drama that does not glorify conflict but examines what it costs the people who survive it — and the families waiting at home. For viewers abroad, that psychological realism, set inside an ordinary living space with no grand production scale, is part of what makes Persian theatre-drama so distinctive: character and language do the heavy lifting. The title itself — Autumn — signals that this is a story of things ending, cooling, and falling away.
Where & how to watch
Paeez is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio with no Persian subtitles or dub. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.