Director: Rambod Javan
Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Mahmoud Jafari, Gelare Abbasi, Roozbeh Hesari
Zoodpaz is a 2024 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Rambod Javan, set in Tehran during the final year of the Iran-Iraq War. The film centers on a working-class family whose domestic routine is shattered by an unexpected household accident during one of the heaviest bombardment campaigns of the war.
What is Zoodpaz about?
Tehran, 1988. As missiles strike the capital and residents scramble between bomb shelters and ordinary life, one household faces a crisis that has nothing and everything to do with the war around them. A pressure cooker — a mundane fixture of Iranian kitchens — ruptures unexpectedly, gravely wounding the family's patriarch. What follows is the story of a family forced to confront grief, survival, and solidarity in the middle of wartime chaos. The film weaves together the intimate drama of a household in crisis with the larger historical backdrop of a city under siege, examining how ordinary families absorb the weight of extraordinary events.
Cast & crew
Rambod Javan, known for his long career in Iranian television and comedy, directs this dramatic departure. The ensemble includes Mohsen Tanabandeh and Navid Mohammadzadeh as central figures in the family drama, joined by Mahmoud Jafari, Gelare Abbasi, Roozbeh Hesari, Shirin Esmaeeli, Saghi Hajipour, and Misa Molavi in supporting roles that round out the household portrait.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora viewers, Zoodpaz occupies a particular emotional register: the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) shaped an entire generation, and stories set in those years carry deep personal resonance for families who lived through the bombardments or fled in their aftermath. Rather than staging the war as backdrop spectacle, the film locates its drama inside a single home, using a domestic accident as the lens through which wartime trauma becomes visible. This approach — intimate, family-centered, grounded in everyday objects — is characteristic of a strong tradition in Iranian social cinema.
Where & how to watch
Zoodpaz is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start or cancel anytime.