Director: Seyed Mojataba Asadi Pour
Cast: Khashayar Rad, Flor Nazari, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Shahrouz Ebrahimi, Mohammad Rasoul Shoja Tafti
Zakhme Kohneh is a 2023 Iranian drama film directed by Seyed Mojtaba Asadi Pour, running 92 minutes. It follows a man who quietly returns to his hometown after years away, only to find that a legal chapter he believed long buried has been forced back open by new circumstances beyond his control.
What is Zakhme Kohneh about?
After years of self-imposed distance, Vafadar comes back to the place he once called home hoping to move forward with his life. A case that once cleared him of any wrongdoing had been formally closed — a verdict he accepted as the final word. But recent events have given the authorities reason to revisit the matter, and what Vafadar assumed was settled history turns out to be far from resolved. Old wounds resurface as people from his past re-enter the picture, and the quiet return he had imagined becomes entangled with questions of guilt, memory, and accountability. The film keeps its cards close, building tension through restraint rather than spectacle.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Seyed Mojtaba Asadi Pour and features a cast of experienced Iranian actors. Khashayar Rad and Flor Nazari lead, supported by Esmaeel Mehrabi, Shahrouz Ebrahimi, Mohammad Rasoul Shoja Tafti, and Sorayya Shahbazian. Each brings grounded, naturalistic work to a story that depends on underplayed tension and lived-in performances rather than heightened drama.
Context & significance
Iranian drama cinema has long drawn on themes of legal injustice, collective memory, and the weight of the past on ordinary lives — a tradition that resonates deeply with diaspora viewers who have watched families navigate systems that can reopen what was supposed to be closed. Zakhme Kohneh, whose title translates loosely as "Old Wound," fits squarely in this lineage: a slow-burn domestic drama concerned less with plot mechanics than with the psychological cost of unresolved history. For Persian-speaking audiences abroad, stories about men returning home after long absences carry particular emotional weight, touching on displacement, estrangement, and the impossibility of a clean start.
Where & how to watch
Zakhme Kohneh is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking. Start or cancel anytime — no extra download required.