Director: Homayoun Assadian
Cast: Negar Javaherian, Behrooz Shoeibi, Javad Ezzati, Sahar Dolatshahi, Mehran Rajabi
Tala va Mes is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed by Homayoun Assadian, following a seminary student in Tehran whose family life is upended when his wife falls seriously ill — forcing him to confront what it truly means to love and provide for those in his care.
What is Tala Va Mes HD about?
Seyed Reza has relocated his young family to Tehran to pursue religious studies, depending on his wife Zahra's rug-weaving income and her steady hand in raising their two children. When Zahra suddenly collapses and is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Seyed is thrown into a world he has never inhabited — cooking meals, changing diapers, walking his daughter to school, and dragging his toddler to Koranic lectures where classmates and teachers offer little sympathy. Slowly, through the grinding routine of caregiving and the long nights bent over the loom, Seyed's understanding of faith and family shifts in ways no seminary lesson could have taught him.
The K-Time take
Assadian's film is distinguished by its restraint: it neither sentimentalizes the clergy nor condemns them, instead allowing an ordinary man's ordinary crisis to carry full moral weight. The performances — especially Javaherian and Shoeibi — keep the drama rooted in lived texture rather than melodramatic crescendo, and the film's IMDB rating of 7.2 reflects the broad resonance it has found with Iranian audiences at home and abroad.
Cast & crew
Director Homayoun Assadian draws a quietly powerful central performance from Behrooz Shoeibi as Seyed Reza, while Negar Javaherian brings fragile dignity to the role of Zahra. Supporting cast includes Javad Ezzati, Sahar Dolatshahi, Mehran Rajabi, and Reza Radmanesh, all contributing to the film's grounded, ensemble-driven texture.
Context & significance
For diaspora viewers, Tala va Mes occupies a particular place in modern Iranian cinema: it is one of the few films to depict the daily life of a religious family with neither propaganda nor caricature. Released in 2011, it arrived during a period when Iranian social cinema was exploring domestic hardship with unusual honesty. The title — Gold and Copper — signals the film's central contrast between the gilded aspirations Seyed carried into his studies and the rough, unglamorous metal of real family responsibility. For Persian-speaking audiences abroad, the film offers a rare, humane portrait of the kind of household many of them grew up in or left behind.
Where & how to watch
Tala va Mes is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.