Terrestrial Verses
2023 · Movie · 77 min · ★ 7.4 · 78% critics
A series of satirical vignettes follows ordinary people trying to navigate everyday requests under rigid authority. From paperwork to permissions, each encounter turns familiar routines into absurd, tense, and darkly funny tests of patience and dignity.
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Details
- Original title
- آیه های زمینی
- Years
- 2023
- Release date
- 2023-10-05
- Language
- FA
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (54 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy the social bite of Taxi or Offside, with dry humor and tense everyday confrontations; Not for you if you need a single flowing story.
Pros: sharp satire; absurd humor; timely themes | Cons: vignette format; repetitive structure; bleak moments
Themes
- corruption
- bureaucracy
- sexism
- iran
- oppression
- abuse of power
- iranian regime
Cast & crew
Majid Salehi
as Siamak
Gohar Kheyrandish
as Mehri
- FM
Farzin Mohades
as Ali
Sadaf Asgari
as Sadaf
Hossein Soleimani
as Farbod
Faezeh Rad
as Faezeh
Bahram Ark
as Young Father
Sarvin Zabetian
as Aram
- AS
Arghavan Shabani
as Selena
Ardeshir Kazemi
as 100-year-old man
Directed by Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami