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, exploring the fragile boundary between the stories we tell and the lives we actually live. Running at 60 minutes, it offers a compact yet thought-provoking experience suited for all ages.
What is Yek Fenjan Faramoshi about?
A writer, absorbed in the world of his own creation, slowly loses his grip on what is real and what exists only on the page. As the characters and events of his unfinished story begin to blur with his daily existence, he finds himself unable to separate the life he is narrating from the life he is living. The film traces his quiet unraveling — not through dramatic spectacle, but through small, unsettling moments where imagination starts to crowd out memory and fact. What begins as creative immersion becomes something closer to a gentle trap, raising questions about the power of storytelling over the storyteller himself.
Cast & crew
The film stars Mansour Soufi and Fahime Momeni in the principal roles, supported by Daryush Salimi, Masoud Rezaiy, and Mehdi Khavari. Director Aghil Rashedi shapes a restrained ensemble performance, keeping the focus on intimate character dynamics rather than broad dramatic gestures. Each cast member brings a grounded quality that anchors the film's more surreal undercurrents in recognizable human feeling.
Context & significance
Iranian family cinema has long balanced warmth and philosophical undercurrent — a tradition that stretches back through decades of Persian storytelling where everyday domestic life becomes the stage for larger questions about identity and reality. Yek Fenjan Faramooshi (One Cup of Forgetting) sits within this lineage, offering diaspora viewers a film that feels culturally familiar in its quiet register and its interest in the inner life of an ordinary person. For Persian-speaking audiences abroad, films like this carry a particular comfort: they reflect a recognizably Iranian sensibility — introspective, unhurried, and layered — without requiring any prior knowledge of the plot or characters. The title itself, evoking a cup of tea and the act of forgetting, speaks directly to that mood.
Where & how to watch
Yek Fenjan Faramooshi is available on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch it on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start your subscription and cancel anytime.