Director: Léa Lando
One small white lie about a magic notebook spirals into a father's biggest promise in this 2024 French-Belgian family comedy.
What is Super Papa about?
Tom means well but comes up short on his son Gaby's eighth birthday, handing over a blank notebook instead of a real present. Rather than admit the mistake, he improvises: this is no ordinary notebook, he claims, it's a magic one, and anything Gaby writes inside will eventually come true. The fib works a little too well. Gaby starts filling the pages with increasingly ambitious wishes, and Tom finds himself scrambling behind the scenes to engineer coincidences, favors, and small miracles before his son notices the trick. Directed by Léa Lando, the comedy follows Tom's escalating, good-hearted scheming as one dream after another forces him further outside his comfort zone.
Cast & crew
Ahmed Sylla stars as Tom, the well-meaning father improvising his way through fatherhood, alongside young Ismaël Bangoura as Gaby. Julien Pestel, Louise Coldefy, Zabou Breitman, Claudia Tagbo, Sophie Vannier, and Simon Zibi round out the supporting cast that gets pulled into Tom's growing web of schemes.
Context & significance
Super Papa is a France-Belgium co-production released in 2024, built around the kind of warm, high-concept premise common in French family comedies of the past decade. Running 98 minutes, it leans on physical comedy and mounting complications rather than sentimentality alone, using the birthday-gift mishap as a springboard for a story about the lengths parents go to keep a child's belief intact, and about how one small improvisation can quietly reshape an entire household's routine.
Where & how to watch
Super Papa streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, making the film's family-friendly humor accessible to Farsi-speaking households across the diaspora. This page can be read without an account, and only pressing play requires a free K-Time login, in keeping with the platform's focus on a fully Farsi viewing experience.