Director: Tim Mielants
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jay Lycurgo, Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson, Little Simz
Steve is a 2025 Irish drama-comedy film directed by Tim Mielants, starring Cillian Murphy as a headteacher at a last-chance reform school navigating one of the most turbulent days of his career. Wry, raw, and unexpectedly tender, the film compresses an entire season of professional and personal crisis into a single twenty-four-hour window.
What is Steve about?
Steve runs a reform school that society has largely written off — a place where expelled, overlooked, and struggling teenagers land when every other option has been exhausted. On an ordinary Tuesday morning, the fragile order he has spent years constructing begins to fracture. A series of escalating incidents among the students forces him to confront not only his limitations as an educator but also the quiet deterioration of his own mental state. Over the course of the day he must hold together a community of young people who distrust institutions while barely trusting himself, piecing together a path forward that may or may not exist.
Cast & crew
Cillian Murphy, internationally known for his nuanced, controlled performances, carries the film almost entirely on his shoulders as Steve. Jay Lycurgo brings layered energy to one of the pivotal student roles, while Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson, Little Simz, and Youssef Kerkour each anchor supporting threads that give the film its ensemble texture. Director Tim Mielants brings a measured, observational style honed through acclaimed European television work.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora — many of whom grew up navigating educational systems far from home, or who raised children inside Western school structures that felt culturally alien — Steve touches something genuinely personal. The film's portrait of an institution stretched past its limits, and the people inside it trying anyway, resonates well beyond its Irish setting. Cillian Murphy's global profile following international hits makes this a familiar face in an unfamiliar story. The film is available in Persian dub so dialogue carries fully without reading subtitles, making it easy to share with family members who prefer Farsi audio.
Where & how to watch
Steve is available now on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web browser, your TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, no extra download needed. Subscribe and cancel anytime.