Director: Aghil Rashedi
Cast: Mansour Soufi, Fahime Momeni, Daryush Salimi, Masoud Rezaiy, Mehdi Khavari...
Yek Fenjan Faramooshi is a 2023 Iranian family film directed by Aghil Rashedi, running sixty minutes and exploring what happens when the line between imagination and lived reality dissolves — leaving a writer trapped inside the very story he is trying to tell.
What is Yek Fenjan Faramooshi about?
A writer sits down to craft his latest story, but something goes wrong. As he builds his fictional world — its characters, its rules, its tensions — he loses his grip on which side of the page he inhabits. The boundaries that normally protect a storyteller from his own creation begin to collapse, pulling him deeper into a place where memory and invention cannot be separated. With no clear map back to the ordinary world, he must find a way out before the story he wrote becomes the only reality he knows. The film unfolds as a gentle but quietly unsettling puzzle, balancing wonder with unease in a way that works for both younger audiences and adults watching alongside them.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Aghil Rashedi and features Mansour Soufi and Fahime Momeni in leading roles, with Daryush Salimi, Masoud Rezaiy, and Mehdi Khavari rounding out the ensemble. Rashedi guides a cast that brings warmth and grounded presence to a story operating at the edge of the fantastical.
Context & significance
Iranian family cinema has long held a special place in world film culture, finding ways to speak to children and adults at the same time through layered, imaginative narratives. Yek Fenjan Faramooshi sits in that tradition — a story about storytelling itself, about what it means to get lost in one's own imagination. For diaspora audiences raising children outside Iran, this kind of film carries extra weight: it is a way of passing on a sensibility, a tone, a way of seeing the world that is distinctly Persian. The film's focus on a writer's inner world gives it a contemplative, literary quality rarely found in short-form family entertainment.
Where & how to watch
Yek Fenjan Faramooshi is available on K-Time with Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime. No extra download required.