Good tortillas turn out to be harder to find than expected in The Dishwasher, a 2023 Canadian short from director Francis Leclerc.
What is The Dishwasher about?
At a high-end New York City restaurant, a chef sends a Mexican dishwasher on an unusual errand: track down tortillas good enough to meet his exacting standards. What starts as a simple kitchen request becomes a small odyssey through the city, threaded with comedy and a quieter drama about who gets listened to in a professional kitchen and whose expertise counts. In just thirteen minutes, the film uses one narrow assignment to say something wider about taste, authenticity, and the gap between who cooks and who gets credit for cooking well.
About the cast
Henri Picard leads the short alongside Charles-Aubey Houde, Joan Hart, Maxime de Cotret, Fayolle Jean Jr, Robin L'Houmeau, Marie-Ève Beauregard, and Zachary Evrard, an ensemble that keeps the film's restaurant-kitchen energy sharp within its brief runtime.
Context & significance
Francis Leclerc directs this Canadian production, working in comedy-drama with the compressed, precise storytelling that short films demand. At thirteen minutes, The Dishwasher has no room for a wasted scene, and its restaurant setting lets it move quickly between comic beats and something more pointed about status and expertise in a professional kitchen. The short format also means every line of dialogue and every stop on the dishwasher's search has to carry weight, which keeps the pacing brisk from the opening request to the final scene.
Watching The Dishwasher on Ktime
The Dishwasher streams on K-Time with a free account login. Its short runtime makes it an easy watch to slot between longer titles, and K-Time's Farsi-language interface helps Persian-speaking viewers browse quickly to shorts and features alike across the platform's catalogue.