Director: Armin Ahmadi
Cast: Javad Zeitouni, Zahra Damiar, Armin Ahmadi, Mahdi Parvaneh, Abbas Mehrjoo
Tavahome Zehn is a 2024 Iranian short drama directed by Armin Ahmadi, running just seven minutes and centering on a family night upended by a teenager's sleepwalking and an accidental encounter with psychoactive pills — a compact, unsettling portrait of domestic vulnerability.
What is Tavahome Zehn about?
Amir Pasha, the older brother in the household, has misplaced a number of prescription psychoactive pills somewhere inside the family home. His younger brother, Amir Hosseyn, is a teenager prone to sleepwalking — he wanders at night without waking. On one such night Amir Hosseyn stumbles upon the missing pills and, unknowingly, swallows them. What follows ripples through the sleeping family in ways none of them could have anticipated. The film builds its quiet dread through what is left unseen rather than shown, letting the confined space of a family home become the stage for something deeply destabilizing.
Cast & crew
Director Armin Ahmadi also appears on screen alongside lead performers Javad Zeitouni and Zahra Damiar. The cast further includes Mahdi Parvaneh, Abbas Mehrjoo, and Amirhossein Mehrjoo. The production brings together a compact ensemble whose performances carry the weight of the film's brief but affecting runtime.
Context & significance
Short films hold a vital place in Iranian independent cinema — frequently the proving ground where emerging directors shape a personal voice before moving to features. Tavahome Zehn fits within a tradition of domestic Iranian shorts that use tight quarters and family dynamics to explore psychological unease. For diaspora audiences who grew up watching Persian family dramas, this seven-minute film offers something both familiar and quietly alarming: the ordinary home transformed into a space of hidden danger. Its brevity is a deliberate choice, concentrating tension rather than releasing it, and it speaks to the strong current of psychological genre filmmaking that has grown inside Iran's indie scene over the past decade.
Where & how to watch
Tavahome Zehn is available now on K-Time. The film is in original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.