Director Daina Oniunas-Pusić brings a quietly unsettling premise to the screen in Tuesday, a 2023 film built around loss, memory, and the places grief leaves behind.
What is Tuesday about?
The film centers on a narrator whose mother has died, and on the pull that draws her back to the same streets, rooms, and landmarks the two of them once shared. What should feel familiar instead feels altered: locations that used to hold warmth and easy memory now carry a different weight, as if the color has been drained out of them. Rather than building toward a single dramatic event, the film sits inside that disorientation, following how a person moves through a world that looks unchanged but no longer feels like home. It is a study of how absence rewrites the meaning of ordinary places, told with restraint rather than melodrama.
About the cast
Julia Louis-Dreyfus leads the cast, with Lola Petticrew, Arinzé Kene, Leah Harvey, Jay Simpson, Ellie James, Ewens Abid, and Nathan Amzi filling out the ensemble around her. It is a cast built for a chamber piece rather than a large ensemble drama, which suits a story that spends most of its time inside one person's grief.
Context & significance
Tuesday is a joint United Kingdom and United States production, catalogued as a short-form work built around a single, sustained emotional idea rather than a sprawling plot. That compact scope lets Daina Oniunas-Pusić stay tightly focused on mood and interiority, giving the film a concentrated feel that a longer, more incident-driven story would dilute. The film has earned a strong critical reception, with reviewers responding to how much emotional ground it covers within a deliberately small frame, favoring atmosphere and performance over incident.
Watching Tuesday on Ktime
Tuesday is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the film includes both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer to watch in Farsi. K-Time's browsing and search experience is built with a Farsi-first design for the diaspora audience, so finding and queuing a title like this feels immediate rather than like an afterthought bolted onto an English-language platform.