Us Again is a seven-minute animated short from 2021 that turns a single night of rain into a portrait of a marriage finding its rhythm again.
What is Us Again about?
An elderly couple begin the film settled into the quiet, careful rituals of old age, until a sudden downpour and the pull of music send them back into the kind of movement they shared when they were young. What starts as a shared glance becomes a dance that carries them through the streets of a city lit up by the storm, each step loosening something that had gone still between them. Us Again tells this entirely through motion and music rather than dialogue, using dance as the vocabulary for a couple rediscovering each other. By the time the rain clears, the short has traced a full arc — hesitation, memory, and a rekindled sense of play — without needing a single line of spoken exchange.
About the cast
No performers are credited on-screen for Us Again; the film is carried entirely by its animated central couple, whose physical performance through dance stands in for dialogue throughout.
Context & significance
Directed by Zach Parrish, Us Again sits inside the animation, family, musical, and short categories at once, a combination that shapes it into something closer to a piece of visual music than a conventionally plotted story. Its brief seven-minute runtime pushes the film toward economy: every scene has to do the work of dialogue-driven films in a fraction of the time, which is why the choice to build the story around dance and rhythm rather than conversation matters so much. As a short, it also sits differently in a catalogue than a feature — a complete, self-contained piece rather than a chapter of something longer, made to be watched in one sitting.
Watching Us Again on Ktime
Us Again is available on K-Time to viewers logged into a K-Time account, part of a catalogue built around Persian-focused streaming for audiences abroad. The short carries no dialogue-dependent barrier for non-English speakers, and K-Time's Farsi-first interface means the surrounding experience of finding and watching it feels native to Persian-speaking households even when the film itself has no language track to translate.