Director: Arash Rahmani
Cast: Farzad Hasani, Anoush Mo'azzami, Soheil Barkhordari, Nazanin Keyvani, Azadeh Mehdizade
Yazdah Yazdah (11:11) is a 2025 Iranian drama-mystery film directed by Arash Rahmani, running 91 minutes. It follows a reclusive writer whose isolated existence is shattered when four mysterious, black-clad strangers arrive at his door with a chilling ultimatum tied to a specific moment in time.
What is Yazdah Yazdah about?
A writer has withdrawn from the world, spending his days alone inside a derelict house where silence is his only companion. His solitary routine collapses the night four figures dressed entirely in black appear and demand he compose a particular story — one chosen by them, not him. If he refuses, something irreversible will happen at exactly 11:11. Trapped between his creative instincts and genuine fear, the writer must decide whether the story he is being forced to tell is fiction at all, or a blueprint for something far more real. Rahmani keeps the threat deliberately ambiguous, layering unease across each scene as the clock inches toward that fateful minute.
Cast & crew
Director Arash Rahmani steers a compact ensemble through material that demands restraint. Farzad Hasani anchors the film as the besieged writer, while Anoush Mo'azzami, Soheil Barkhordari, Nazanin Keyvani, Azadeh Mehdizade, Rashin Ghahramani, Rima Tahmasbi, and Danyal Abbasi form the enigmatic quartet and the peripheral presences that tighten the story's grip.
Context & significance
Iranian psychological drama has long used confined spaces and symbolic numbers to carry weight that overt dialogue cannot. Yazdah Yazdah follows that tradition — the number 11:11, a moment many Persian speakers associate with wishes and fate, becomes a weapon here, freighted with dread rather than hope. For diaspora audiences who grew up with Persian folklore around auspicious times and cursed hours, the film's premise lands on familiar cultural ground, then subverts it completely. It is precisely the kind of introspective, unsettling Iranian cinema that travels well: the stakes are universal, the texture distinctly Iranian.
Where & how to watch
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