Director: Mehdi Arhami
Cast: Zahra Behrouz Manesh, Marjan Khaksari, Behrad Selah Varzi, Saeid Salemi, Raheleh Heydari
Tamina is a 2025 Iranian short drama directed by Mehdi Arhami, following a young woman named Baran who refuses to surrender to the weight of her circumstances and quietly fights to reclaim something precious she has lost. Brief in runtime, it is unhurried in emotional depth.
What is Tamina about?
Baran carries more than she shows. Beneath her composed exterior, life has taken things from her — quietly, relentlessly — and the film traces her careful, determined effort to recover what slipped away. The story unfolds in small gestures and silences rather than confrontations: a conversation held back, a step toward a door, a decision made alone. The women around Baran — family, neighbours, near-strangers — each reflect a different way of enduring, and their presence shapes the emotional geometry of the film. Arhami keeps the camera close, letting faces do the work the script leaves unsaid. The ending resists easy comfort, but it is not without hope.
Cast & crew
Director Mehdi Arhami guides a cast built around Zahra Behrouz Manesh and Marjan Khaksari as the central figures, with Behrad Selah Varzi, Saeid Salemi, Raheleh Heydari, Touran Ramazani, and Hengameh Safaeipour filling out the ensemble. All seven performers are drawn from Iranian cinema, and the film trusts them to carry weight in restrained, naturalistic registers.
Context & significance
Short-form Iranian drama has long been a training ground for voices that later define the country's cinema — and a vehicle in its own right for intimate stories that cannot survive the pressures of commercial feature length. Tamina fits squarely in that tradition: a film about a woman trying to take back control in a world that has repeatedly denied it. For diaspora viewers, stories of quiet female resilience carry a particular charge, echoing both the lived experience of women in Iran and the determination many brought with them when they left. The 2025 production date signals a contemporary story without historical distance — this is now, not then.
Where & how to watch
Tamina is available to stream on K-Time. This title includes a Persian dub, so you can watch it in Persian with no language barrier. Stream on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.