Director: Mehdi Arhami
Cast: Zahra Behrouz Manesh, Marjan Khaksari, Behrad Selah Varzi, Saeid Salemi, Raheleh Heydari
Tamina is a 2025 Iranian short drama film directed by Mehdi Arhami, following a young woman named Baran as she struggles against life's mounting pressures and attempts to reclaim what she has lost — a quiet, intimate portrait of resilience and longing.
What is Tamina about?
Baran is a young woman caught between the weight of her circumstances and a stubborn desire to rebuild something that once felt whole. Faced with an environment that seems to work against her at every turn, she searches inward and outward for a path forward. The film unfolds in small, deliberate moments — a look exchanged across a room, a silence that carries more than words — tracing how a person holds herself together when the forces around her seem determined to pull her apart. Arhami keeps the emotional register restrained, letting the performances accumulate meaning rather than announcing it, and the result is a film that trusts its audience to feel the weight of what is left unsaid.
Cast & crew
Director Mehdi Arhami guides a largely ensemble-driven cast. Zahra Behrouz Manesh and Marjan Khaksari anchor the emotional core of the film alongside Behrad Selah Varzi and Saeid Salemi, while Raheleh Heydari, Touran Ramazani, and Hengameh Safaeipour round out the supporting ensemble with assured, naturalistic performances.
Context & significance
Short dramatic films have long been a vital proving ground for Iranian cinema — a space where emerging directors work with tighter resources but often achieve a concentrated emotional honesty that longer formats can struggle to match. Tamina belongs to this tradition. For diaspora viewers, these films offer something particular: a window onto everyday Iranian life as it is lived now, not through the lens of spectacle or national myth but through ordinary people navigating ordinary pain. The film's themes of loss, perseverance, and the quiet effort of self-recovery speak directly to experiences many Iranians abroad carry with them — of rebuilding a sense of self far from familiar ground.
Where & how to watch
Tamina is available to stream on K-Time. The film is presented in its original Persian audio with no dubbed track. You can watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required, and you can cancel anytime.